BIO:  Jacob KLINE, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Wrightsville Borough and Hellam Township, Pg 78

JACOB KLINE was born in Lower Windsor Township, May 6, 1842.  His parents were 
Henry and Eliza (Flury) Kline of York County, and of German descent.  They had 
nine children, of whom Jacob is the fifth.  He remained on the farm until 
twenty-two years of age, receiving his education at the public schools.  When 
twenty-six years of age he began the business of cigar-making at Wrightsville, 
which he followed for a number of years.  In 1873, in company with Henry Keller 
of Lower Windsor, he began the manufacture of cigars at Wrightsville, and has 
followed it since with success.  In 1876 he built the large brick building on 
Hellam Street in Wrightsville, where the firm have their factory.  They at first 
employed about twenty hands in the factory, but now have about fifty-three 
hands.  In 1880 he erected an additional brick building, remodeling the first 
and raising the whole to a three-story building in which he opened, in the same 
year, a general merchandising business.  They manufactured about 2,500,000 
cigars in 1883.  He was married at York, in 1867, to Eliza Lebernight, of York 
County, and has had six children born to him:  John Henry (deceased), Martha 
Jane, William Edward, Howard Smith (deceased), Maggie May (deceased) and Eliza 
Bertha.  Mr. Kline is a member of the I. O. O. F., and with his wife, of the 
Methodist Church.  He was twice member of the Wrightsville Borough council.