Lorentz Kline was born in Salisbury Township in 1795, and died in 1882. He was a very prosperous agriculturist, and accumulated three large farms, two on the Little Lehigh, of one hundred and fifty and one hundred and twenty acres respectively, and the other of one hundred and fifty-two acres. These have ever since been in possession of the family, two of them being owned by Marcus Kline, son of Edwin Kline, while the other is the property of Benjamin F. Kline, of Allentown.

Lorentz Kline married Lydia Kemmerer, and they had six children, of whom Edwin was the eldest. Helena (2) became the wife of John Heinly, and has three children. Lydia (3) is the wife of William Lerch. Tilghman K. (4) Benjamin F. (5) Mary Ann (6) married John Hartenstein and had five children.