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and give employment to a corps of twelve clerks.     Mr. Kline is a consistent member of the Presbyterian church, and fraternally belongs to Indiana Lodge, No. 313, F. and A. M.; Zembabel Chapter, No. 162, R. A. M., of Pittsburg; Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar, and Syria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Pittsburg. He is also member of Wm. Penn Council, Royal Arcanum, of Indiana.     On August 5, 1891, Mr. Kline married Sarah, a daughter of the late James Morley, of Johnstown, and to this marriage has been born one child, a son, James Morley, born May 3, 1892.     George K. Kline is a young man of good business qualifications; is active and enterprising, and takes a lively interest in every move which has for its object the advancement of the material prosperity of the city of his adoption. He is an active member of the Board of Trade. DANIEL WEBSTER BRALLIER, now a resident of Jackson township, and well known for energy, thoroughgoingness and success is a son of Rev. Samuel and Susannah (Good) Brallier, and was born at Belsano, Blacklick township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1851. The Bralliers are of French-German descent, and many of them in the new world have inherited the good qualities of both races. In this State the Bralliers were first resident in the eastern part, where Emanuel Brallier, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born and reared. He was a shoemaker by trade and a farmer by occupation, and came to Belsano, this county, where he died in December, 1882, aged eighty-eight years. He was a member

of the German Baptist church, and his son, Rev. Samuel Brallier, was a native of Morrison's Cove, Bedford county. He came when young man to Blacklick township, but afterwards removed to Jackson township, where he passed the last twenty-five years of his life. He was born September 2, 1824, followed farming and lumbering for a livelihood, and died October 1, 1894, just past the seventieth year of his age. He became a member of the German Baptist church at an early age, and served acceptably and with profit in its ministry for many years. He was a man of enterprise, and highly respected by all who knew him. His wife, Susannah (Good) Brallier, was born in East Taylor township, March 29, 1833, and died November 19, 1887. She was a member of the German Baptist church, and her father, Jacob Good, was a son of Christian Good, a large land-owner and substantial citizen of East Taylor township. The Goods were of German descent, and Jacob Good married Elizabeth Gochuer, whose father, Christian Gochuer, was a German Baptist and an excellent citizen.     Daniel Webster Brallier was reared in his native township until he was seventeen years of age, and then removed into Jackson township, which has been his residence ever since. He received his education in the public schools, and learned the trade of carpenter, at which he worked steadily at various places until 1873. In that year he commenced his present prosperous business of contracting and building. He is an excellent and skilled workman, and a man of energy and push, and has built a large number of houses, including the erection of some fine and tasteful residences. In connection with his numerous contracting and building operations, he takes time to manage the fine, productive farm which

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