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LEWIS S. CLINE
Vol. 3, p. 1274-1275

Mr. Cline came from his native State of Missouri and established his
residence on a farm in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, in the autumn of 1899,
and he has since continued to be actively identified with the
agricultural and live-stock industries in this county, the while he
has developed his fine farm of forty acres into one of the model
smaller landed estates of this section of Oklahoma, this attractive
and well improved homestead being located two miles distant from the
City of Tulsa and having been the abiding place of Mr. Cline during
the greater period of his residence in the county, though his ability
and popularity resulted in his being called upon to serve as register
of deeds of the county, after having previously held the position of
bookkeeper in the office of the county treasurer.

Lewis S. Cline was born in Cooper County, Missouri, on the 29th of
April, 1867, the old homestead farm which was the place of his
nativity being situated near the Village of Bunceton. The sixth in
order of birth in a family of eight children, of whom four are
living, Mr. Cline is a son of John and Elizabeth Cline, the former of
who was born in Germany and the latter in Missouri, where her parents
were pioneers. The mother died in 1872, at the age of sixty forty-
nine years, and the father passed away at the age of sixty-one years,
in March, 1884.

John Cline was reared and educated in the German Fatherland where he
learned the trade of carpenter and where he remained until he was
twenty-six years old, when he immigrated to the United states, where
he felt assured of better opportunity for winning independence and
definite success. The sailing vessel on which he obtained passage
consumed about eight weeks in making the voyage across the Atlantic,
and after landing in his adopted country Mr. Cline finally made his
way to the West and found employment at his trade in Booneville,
Missouri.

Later he became an energetic and successful farmer and stock-grower
in Cooper County, that state, where he continued to reside on his old
homestead until the close of his life. His political allegiance
having been given to the democratic party and both he and his wife
having been zealous members of the Baptist Church. They were
unassuming fold of strong mentality and sterling worth of character,
and their lives were marked by steadfast integrity and by definite
usefulness.

In connection with the work of the home farm Lewis S. Cline early
learned the lessons and value of practical industry, and his early
education was acquired by attending the local schools during the
winter months, when his services were not in full requisition on the
farm. He was an ambitious and appreciative student, however, always
standing at the head of his class and making exceptional profit from
the somewhat limited educational advantages afforded him during his
boyhood and youth. He was but six years of age at the time of his
mother's death and was seventeen when his honored father passed away.
He was one of the four children at home when the father died, and he
and his brother George thereafter had the management of the farm
until he had attained to the age of twenty-six years, when he turned
his attention to the buying and shipping of grain from that section
of his native state, his enterprise as a buyer of grain having
extended over the district between Booneville and Glaslow, in Cooper
and Howard counties.

In Missouri Mr. Cline continued his activities as a buyer of grain,
in connection with agricultural pursuits of stock-raising, until
1899, on the 15th of September of which year he came to Oklahoma and
located on an embryonic farm three miles south of the Village of
Bixby. Where he engaged in diversified farming and the raising of
stock, with which lines of enterprise he has continued to be
identified during the intervening years, his homestead farm being
within a short distance of the City of Tulsa, as previously noted,
and his holdings including other excellent land in Tulsa County. In
1909-10 Mr. Clime was bookkeeper in the office of the county
treasurer, John T. Kramer, and in 1911 he was elected register of
deeds of the county, an office of which he continues the efficient
and valued incumbent until January 1, 1917. Mr. Cline is well known
and held in unqualified esteem in Tulsa County, is a stalwart
democrat in his political proclivities, and in the City of Tulsa is
identified with the Knights of Pythias, the independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the Woodmen of the World, both he and his wife holding
membership in the Baptist Church.

On the 21st of June, 1893, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cline
to Miss Sue BAKER, who was born at Arrowrock, Saline County,
Missouri, and of their ten children all are living except one who
died in infancy. The names of the six sons and three daughters are
here entered in the respective order of birth: Lois, Eunice, Cameron,
Kingdon, Shelby, Benjamin, Anna, Myrl and Philip.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, January 23, 1999.