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Kline, Jacob 1840-

Military officer; born in Pennsylvania, Nov. 5, 1840; entered the regular army from civil life; was commissioned first lieutenant of the 16th Infantry in 1861; promoted captain in 1864; major of the 24th Infantry in 1887; lieutenantcolonel of the 9th Infantry in 1892; and colonel of the 21st Infantry, April 30, 1897. During the Civil War he was brevetted captain, April 7, 1862, for gallantry at Shiloh, and major, Sept. 1, 1864, for gallantry in the Atlanta campaign. On May 27, 1898, he was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers for the war with Spain, and on March 15, 1899, was honorably discharged from that service.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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