Carline, A. M.

A.M. CARLINE.

A.M. Carline was born in Baldwin township, Allegheny County, Pa., June 23, 1840, the fifth in a family of six children of Adam and Elizabeth (Miller) Carline. His grandfather emigrated from England and settled in Baldwin township, where he kept an inn on the Brownsville road. He was twice married, and by his first wife he had four sons.

Adam Carline, father of A.M., was four years old when his parents emigrated. He was a carpenter, and followed that trade during his life. Upon the death of his mother a division of the estate was made between Adam and Jacob, the only children then living. Adam Carline lived and carried on his trade in Pittsburgh a number of years, but the last years of his life were spent on his portion of the farm in Baldwin, where he died in 1844. The children of Adam and Elizabeth Carline were as. follows, viz.: Joseph A., born April 2, 1832, connected with the police force of Pittsburgh; James W., born -----, 1836, died -----; Adam M., subject of this sketch; Millicent G., born ----- 1842, twice married; first husband, John Peterson; second ----- Elder, now living in Alliance, Ohio.

His mother married for her second husband Daniel W. Morgan. By this union there were two children: Benjamin, deceased, and Kate, wife of James W. Smiley, living in Kansas. His mother died at his residence in Suterville, Dec. 25, 1880, and is buried in the West Newton Cemetery.

Having received the education afforded by the common school, at the age of ten Adam M. Carline became a clerk in the store of J.P. Stall, on Water Street, Pittsburgh, with whom he remained until the death of the latter, about ten months; then was employed in the store of his brother, Joseph A., first on Grant Street, then on the corner of Fourth and Liberty, next as clerk for John Grazier, on Smithfield Street; two years at each of these places. He then returned to his brother’s store. For one season he was employed as second clerk on the steamer "Grand Turk," plying between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.

At the age of nineteen, in company with Robert Martin, firm Carline & Martin, he purchased his brother’s store, and carried on the business until the spring of 1861. Aug. 9, 1861, he enlisted as a private soldier in Company H, Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and continued in active service until near the close of the campaign of 1863, when, having been confined by disease contracted in the army for a number of months, returned home, January, 1864, on a sick furlough, and was honorably discharged at Pittsburgh, May 28th of the same year. When he had recovered from his illness he was employed by the government until the spring of 1865 in shipping stock from the yards at Pittsburgh.

April 1, 1865, he moved to Suterville, where for nearly seventeen years he has carried on a successful business in general merchandising.

In politics he is Republican. He married, June 22, 1865, Amelia, daughter of John and Eliza (O’Connor) Battie. Mrs. Carline was born near Sharpsburg, Allegheny Co., Pa., Feb. 5, 1839.

Mr. and Mrs. Carline are members of the Presbyterian Church at West Newton. Their children are Elizabeth, born June 10, 1866; John Hasson, born Aug. 18, 1870; Eleanor Kate, born July 10, 1872; Adam Morris, born Nov. 29, 1874; William Thomas, born Oct. 18, 1876, died July 25, 1878.