Handwritten detailed memoirs of Boston businessman. Kline wrote about his two-hundred-year family history, his childhood in upper New York State, his experiences in the Civil War, and his years in the shoe and leather trades.

Samuel Kline (1837-1917) was a Boston businessman who retired to San Diego, California in 1902.

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