Amos B. Kline and Elizabeth B. Kays

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Husband Amos B. Kline ^{1 2}

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           Born: 19 Apr 1843 - Penn Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Father: John Kline (Abt 1809-1855) 4 5 6
         Mother: Elizabeth Knappenberger (      -1890) 1 4 6

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       Marriage: 17 Sep 1889 3 7

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Wife Elizabeth B. Kays ^{3 7}

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         Father: D. S. Kays (      -      ) 3
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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Kline ⁷

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2 F Madeline Kline ⁷

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3 M Arthur Burnadotte Kline ⁷

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General Notes: Husband - Amos B. Kline

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He received a liberal common school and academic education. In September, 1862, he volunteered in Co. C. twenty-second reg. Pa. militia, which saw several weeks of service on the southern borders of the State. Leaving school, he taught several terms of public school. During 1865 and 1866 he was superintendent of the Curlew and Highland Oil companies, two organizations operating at Burning Springs, West Virginia, after which to further prepare himself to follow some business pursuit he entered Eastman's Business, college, Poughkeepsie, New York, from which he graduated in the spring of 1867. He then embarked in the drug and grocery business at Irwin, which he quit two years later to accept the position of assistant superintendent and bookkeeper with John S. Love, of Pittsburg, who was then constructing the Cove railroad from Hollidaysburg. In October, 1873, he became a partner with his brother, Dr. W. J. K. Kline, in the publication of the Westmoreland Democrat and Republican. They enlarged the paper, changed the name to Westmoreland Democrat and made it a live and important weekly, taking a leading part in politics and ably discussing the issues of the day. Mr. Kline took part in the editorial work and was general manager until the fall of 1882, when they sold the paper. They then purchased a large coal field in the vicinity of Pleasant Unity, which they sold to William Thaw, of Pittsburgh. They afterwards bought fifteen hundred acres of gas-coal lands in Manor valley, and were instrumental in the building of the Manor Valley railroad and organizing the Manor Gas Coal company, in which they held an interest until 1886. Since 1886 Mr. Kline has been dealing in real estate in Westmoreland and Allegheny counties. During 1889 he and his brother, Dr. Kline, bought several tracts of land and laid out West Wilmerding, an addition to Wilmerding, in the latter county, on the line of the P. R. R.
In politics he was an unswerving democrat. In religion he was a member of the Reformed church and during 1888 and 1889 aided with his time as chairman of the building committee, and his means in the erection of the new church, known as Denmark Manor Reformed church, which ranked among the most handsome country churches in western Pennsylvania. [HBCWC 1890, 117]

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 116.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 52.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 117.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 368.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 115, 116.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 53.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 54.