Biography of Elias Kline, page 144.  History of Northeast Indiana; LaGrange, 
Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under editorial supervision of 
Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H.McEwen, and William H. McIntosh.  The 
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1920.

   Elias Kline is one of the large land owners and successful farmers and 
stock men of Spencer Township, DeKalb County.  His home is two and three 
quarters of a mile northwest of Spencerville. Mr. Kline has 160 acres of 
land and has his farm well improved and stocked with good grades of cattle, 
horses and hogs.
   He was born in Stark County, Ohio, December 24, 1848, a son of Henry and 
Maria (Rudy) Kline.  His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, were married 
in Ohio, and in the spring of 1866 came to Indiana and settled in Spencer 
Township.  In 1870 they located on the farm where they spent the rest of 
their lives.
   Elias Kline acquired his education in Stark County, Ohio, and was about 
twenty-two years old when he came to Indiana.  In politics he has always 
been a republican.
   January 1, 1900, Mr. Kline married Mary V. Caillet. She was born in 
France June 19, 1866, a daughter of John H. and Anna (Rich) Caillet.  Her 
father died in the old country in 1871. Her mother brought her four 
children to the United States in 1874, landing at New York in February and 
going from there to Canton, Ohio. She later married John Shontz.  Of her 
eight children four died in France and the four now living are August, 
Frank, Mary and Justin.
   Mr. and Mrs. Kline have one son, Vernon E., born April 3, 1902, now in 
the third year of high school.

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