Husband Dr. William John K. Kline, A.M., M.D. 1 2 3 4 5
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Father: John Kline (Abt 1809-1855) 4 6 7
Mother: Elizabeth Knappenberger ( -1890) 4 6 8
Marriage: 1867 or 1868 5 9
Wife Emma Tinstman 1 5 10
Born: 9 Aug 1849 5
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Father: John Tinstman (1807-1877) 1 11 12 13
Mother: Anna Overholt (1812-1866) 1 13 14
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• They had no children.
General Notes: Husband - Dr. William John K. Kline, A.M., M.D.
He was brought up on the homestead farm, attended the common and select schools, Glade Run Academy, and subsequently graduated from Jefferson College, at Cannonsburg, in the class of 1860. During his senior years in college Dr. Kline pursued the elective study of law. His health being at that time quite broken, he spent some time in the oil regions, at the outbreak of the oil excitement, hoping thus to recover his health, but without much avail. Leaving the oil regions he entered the office of Dr. H. G. Lomison, of Greensburg, and with him read medicine, matriculated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, took a course of lectures, and then entered Turner Lane Military Hospital, in that city, as a cadet, and subsequently completed his medical course at Long Island College Hospital, and graduated therefrom in 1864. The battle of Gettysburg being then in progress he proceeded to Harrisburg with the intention of entering a surgical corps, passed examination by the State Medical Board, and was assigned to duty, and a large number of the wounded having been shipped to Harrisburg, he and Dr. J. S. King organized in that city the Walnut Street Hospital, of which they continued in joint charge for the period of nine months, at the end of which the emergency under which the hospital was organized was over. Near the close of his engagement there Dr. Kline contracted typhoid fever, which unfitted him for military duty, and on recovery went into private practice at Irwin Station, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he followed his profession for some years, being a portion of the time assistant surgeon, and during the absence of Dr. Lomison, the surgeon, in Europe, the acting surgeon for the Westmoreland Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In 1868-69 he took an extra course of medical lectures at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. In 1871 he removed to Greensburg, where he practiced his profession. He was one of the proprietors of the Westmoreland Democrat, and for the first few years of his residence in Greensburg shared with his copartners the editorship of that paper, in addition to his professional practice. In 1876, he was elected a member of the State Legislature, and served in the sessions of 1877-78.