Bios: CONRAD CLINE: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    CONRAD CLINE,
    
    [p. 284] deceased, an ex-soldier of the late war, was born in Richland Co.,
  Ohio, Oct. 19, 1823, and was a son of Henry and Barbara (Book) Cline, natives
  of Essex Co., N. J., and Washington Co., Pa., respectively.
    
    The father of our subject was a farmer by occupation, and spent his whole
  life on the farm, engaged in agricultural labors; he was very successful in
  his chosen occupation, and was considered to be one of the leading men of his
  neighborhood. His wife, Barbara, a daughter of Jacob Book of the State of
  Pennsylvania, bore him the following six children: Mary; Jacob; Eliza; Maria;
  Conrad, the subject of this sketch; and Sarah. Henry Cline departed this life
  Sept. 15, 1866, his death following that of his wife by some three years, her
  death having occurred Dec. 31, 1863.
    
    Conrad Cline early in life learned the trade of a plasterer, and worked at
  the trade a number of years, relinquishing it at last to engage in
  shoemaking, an occupation he followed until his enlistment in 1863 in the
  United States service, in which he remained until the close of the war that
  decided that the South had espoused a "lost cause." He was firm in his
  allegiance to the political principles and dogmas of the Republican party. In
  the matter of his religious preferences, he was a member of the United
  Presbyterian Church.
    
    On Dec. 16, 1847, he was joined at the altar of Hymen with Mary Harbison,
  daughter of William Harbison of New Castle, Pa., and by their union they
  became the proud parents of three children: Margaret E., deceased; Sarah J.,
  deceased; and Eliza A., who married John C. Houk of Shenango township, and
  presented him with nine children: Jennie E.; Margaret A.; Mary A.; Sarah E.;
  Edith; Conrad C.; Samuel R.; Edna; and Hazel. Our subject's first wife died
  Oct. 2 , 1865. He afterwards formed a second union with Nancy Burton, Jan. 3,
  1867. Mr. Cline departed this life Jan. 20, 1892, mourned by many friends and
  the best citizens of New Castle, for he had firmly established himself in
  their regard as a man of strict integrity, and disposed to many kindly
  actions.