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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



married Joseph Himevelt, ami lived in 

 Philadelphia. 5. Susanna, born Septem- 

 ber 3, 1835, married Louis Kehl, of 

 Montgomery county. 6. George, to be 

 further mentioned hereinafter. 7. An in- 

 fant. The father of this family died 

 February 3, 1838, and his wife survived 

 him many years, dying January 14, 



1875. 



George Hembach Kline, son of George 

 and Susanna (Hembach) Kline, was 

 born January 13, 1837, on a farm then 

 owned and cultivated by his father, at 

 Hembach, Lower Milford township, 

 Lehigh county. He attended the sub- 

 scription school of Samuel Crawford, at 

 Swamp Church, and also for two years 

 the public schools, which were then 

 first opened. He then went to Plym- 

 outh Meeting, Montgomery county, where 

 he remained until his sixteenth year, 

 working on a farm and attending 

 the Friends' school. He was then ap- 

 prenticed to Jacob Harley, a harness 

 maker at Zion Hill, Lehigh county, and 

 who was father of Jonas Harley, pro- 

 prietor of a harness manufactory at 

 Quakertown. Here George Kline re- 

 mained one year, when he went to 

 Quakertown. where he entered the em- 

 ploy of Louis P. Jacoby. In the course 

 of a few years he established a shop on 

 his own account at Riegelsville, Dur- 

 ham township. In 1859 he located in 

 Quakertown, where he purchased the 

 business of his former employer, Louis 

 Jacoby. He conducted his establish- 

 ment profitably until the second year 

 of the civil war, when (October i. 1862) 

 he enlisted in Company H, Fifteenth 

 Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel 

 William J. Palmer commanding. He 

 was detailed for special duty as saddler, 

 and in August, 1863, was promoted to 

 sergeant, which rank he held until he 

 was honorably discharged from the ser- 

 vice of the United States after the col- 

 lapse of the rebellion, in June, 1865. 

 He participated in some of the most 

 stirring campaigns of the great con- 

 flict, and among the notable battles in 

 which he bore a part was the sanguin- 

 ary struggle at Chickamauga. Tennes- 

 see. After returning from his army 

 service, Mr. Kline resumed his business, 

 which he has successfully conducted to 

 the present time. He has alwa;\'s taken 

 an active part in community afifairs, and 

 enjoys the respect and confidence of 

 his neighbors in high degree. During 

 President Cleveland's first administra- 

 tion he filled a full term of four years 

 as postmaster, discharging the duties of 

 the position with ability and integrity. 

 In politics he is a stanch Democrat. 

 With his family he holds membership 

 in St. John's Lutheran Church, in which 

 he has served as deacon, and has other- 

 wise been active in church work. 



In 1857, while residing in Riegels- 

 ville, Mr. Kline married Elmina, daugh- 



ter of Henry and Lydia (Bartholomew> 

 Kemmerer, and of this union were borni 

 the following children : i. Henry Kem- 

 merer, to be further mentioned; 2. 

 Emma B., who became the wife of 

 Harry Y. Jacoby, son of Simon Jacoby,. 

 of Sellersville, Bucks county ; 3. Susan 

 B., who became the wife of Andrew 

 Snovel, of Hatfield, Montgomery county; 

 4. William K. 



Henry Kemmerer Kline, eldest child 

 of George H. Elmina (Kemmerer) 

 Kline, was born June 4, 1862. He at- 

 tended the common schools and the 

 high school until reaching his sixteenth 

 year, after which he worked for J. S. 

 Harley. He became assistant post- 

 master to his father, acting in that ca- 

 pacit}' for four years. During the sec- 

 ond Cleveland administration and that 

 of President Harrison he was assistant 

 postmaster to Edward Ochs, and after 

 the death of Mr. Ochs. with Dr. Joseph 

 Thomas. For two years and a half he 

 was assistant to Mahlon Detweiler, 

 after which he was employed for six 

 months by Mrs. Clymer. Since October,. 

 1903, he has been engaged in stove- 

 mounting. He has been active in public 

 affairs, and for four years served as 

 clerk of the council, and is now a mem- 

 ber of the school board and clerk of the 

 election board. In politics he is a 

 Democrat. He and his wife are mem- 

 bers of St. John's Lutheran Church, in 

 which for many years he has served 

 as deacon and secretary of the Sunday 

 school. Mr. Kline married, December 

 26. 1891, Emma Matilda, daughter of 

 Til and Amelia (Mint) Osnean, of 

 Quakertown. formerly of Allentown, and 

 they have three children: J. Robert,. 

 Herman Otto and Lillian Naomi. All 

 these children attend school and J. 

 Robert is studying music. 



JOSHUA TOMLINSON, honored as 

 the oldest living resident of Langhorne, 

 of which city he is a native, and the 

 onlv surviving charter member of the 

 Lodge of Odd Fellows in that village, 

 is a representative of ancestry v\ho set- 

 tled in Pennsylvania in the colonial days, 

 shortly before the Revolution. The 

 founders of the American branch of the 

 family came from England and settled 

 in Philadelphia and Bucks counties. 

 They were farmers by occupation, and 

 Friends in religion. 



Mr. Tomlinson was born March 24, 

 1822. in Middletown township, son of 

 Aaron and Jane (Headley) Tomlinson; 

 grandson of William and Rachel (Ever- 

 ett) Tomlinson; and great-grandson of 

 Richard Tomlinson. He was educated 

 at the Friends' school and the Belle- 

 view school in Langhorne, that last 

 named being then under the charge of 

 William Mann, one of the most capable 



