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     Alfred Mosher Powless was baptized on 14 April 1878 at the Presbyterian Church in Norwood, Bergen Co., New Jersey.¹
     He was no doubt named for Alfred Mosher Powless, his father's half-brother and his mother's first husband, who died in 1869 at age 28.

     Abraham Herring Powless was born on 3 April 1843¹, and baptized on 17 March 1847 at the Old North Church in Dumont, Bergen Co., New Jersey.¹ He died on 4 February 1880 in the county poorhouse in Denver, Arapahoe Co., Colorado, at age 36 from pneumonia.^2,3 He was buried at Tappan Cemetery in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.⁴
     He was a carpenter.³

     Maria Antoinette Powless was born on 21 May 1847¹, and baptized on 8 August 1847 at the Old North Church in Dumont, Bergen Co., New Jersey.¹ She married Peter Kline on 18 November 1865 in Schraalenburgh (now Dumont), Bergen Co., New Jersey.^3,4 She died on 30 August 1928 at Nyack Hospital in Nyack, Rockland Co., New York, at age 81.² She was buried at Tappan Cemetery in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.⁵
     She and her husband Peter and their children are listed in Orangetown, Rockland Co., New York, in the 1875 state census⁶, and in Harrington Twp., Bergen Co., New Jersey, in the 1880 federal census.⁷ They later moved to North Bergen Twp., Hudson Co., New Jersey, where she and Peter are listed in the 1895 state census and the 1900 and 1910 federal censuses.^8,9,10 They are listed in Union, Hudson Co., New Jersey, in the 1920 census.¹¹

     Margaretta Bogert Powles was born on 23 March 1849 in Tappan, Harrington Twp., Bergen Co., New Jersey.² She was baptized on 16 June 1850 in Schraalenburgh (now Dumont), Bergen Co., New Jersey.¹ She died on 17 November 1904, six months after her mother, at her half-brother Matthew's home in Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, at age 55.³ She was buried at Hackensack Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey.⁴
     She never married, and lived with her parents, then her mother after her father's death, in Harrington Twp., Bergen Co., New Jersey.^5,6,7

     William Henry Powless was born on 9 June 1853 in Harrington Twp., Bergen Co., New Jersey.^2,3 He was baptized on 11 September 1853 at the Old North Church in Dumont, Bergen Co., New Jersey.⁴ He married Anna F. Holliday, daughter of V. G. Holliday, on 25 December 1887 in Como, Park Co., Colorado.⁵ He died on 2 November 1949 at the Boulder Sanitarium in Boulder, Boulder Co., Colorado, at age 96.^6,7 He was buried at Green Mountain Cemetery (Sect. C, Row D, Grave 28) in Boulder.⁶
     He graduated from the Englewood Institute in Englewood, Bergen Co., New Jersey, and went on to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, Rensselaer Co., New York, graduating in 1874. After graduation he worked on a boundary survey between Bergen and Hudson Counties in New Jersey, and as the U.S. assistant engineer for surveys and improvement of the Blackwater River in Virginia. He returned to R.P.I. in 1875, where he taught for three years, then joined Watervliet Arsenal in Watervliet, Albany Co., New York, as a draftsman. From December 1878 to March 1884 he was U.S. assistant engineer for surveys, working on Mississippi River improvement along the Plum Point and New Madrid reaches.⁸ He's listed in the 1880 census in Fulton, Lauderdale Co., Tennessee, as a civil engineer with the U.S. Civil Engineer Corps.⁹
     In March 1884 he moved to Alma, Park Co., Colorado, where he worked as a civil and mining engineer, county surveyor, and federal mineral surveyor.^8,7 He also served there as a served as a Park Co. commissioner, school board member, and mayor.⁷
     He and his wife Anna are listed in Alma, Park Co., Colorado, in the censuses from 1900 to 1920. Their grand-nephew Clyde Haring, son of William's niece Kittie (Kline) Haring, was living with them in 1900.
     In 1910 Claude, Clarence, and Maude Powless, ages 16, 14, and 8, are listed with them as their children, and Anna is listed as having had three children, all then living. This is apparently wrong. No other records have been found for them, they aren't listed with William and Anna in 1900, and Anna is listed in 1900 as having no children. William's and Anna's ages are also significantly wrong (listed as 54 and 51, when they were actually 57 and 42), and the birth places for William and his parents are wrong (listed as Kansas for William, and Ohio and Kansas for his parents, when it should be New Jersey for William, and New Jersey and New York for his parents). Perhaps someone who didn't know the family well supplied the information.^10,11,12
     He and Anna moved to Boulder, Boulder Co., Colorado, in 1922⁷, and are listed there in the 1930 census.¹³ In 1940, after his wife's death, he was living in Boulder with the family of his grand-nephew Clyde Haring.¹⁴

     Peter Kline was born in June 1843 in New York.² He married Maria Antoinette Powless, daughter of Paul Powles and Sarah Jane Mosher, on 18 November 1865 in Schraalenburgh (now Dumont), Bergen Co., New Jersey.^1,3 He died in June 1925 in Union City, Hudson Co., New Jersey, after a long illness, exacerbated by a week-long heat wave that killed 481 people nationwide.⁴ He was buried at Tappan Cemetery in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.⁵
     His surname is spelled Klein in his marriage record, but Kline in most other online records found for the family.³
     He and his wife Maria and their children are listed in Orangetown, Rockland Co., New York, in the 1875 state census⁶, and in Harrington Twp., Bergen Co., New Jersey, in the 1880 federal census.⁷ They later moved to North Bergen Twp., Hudson Co., New Jersey, where he and Maria are listed in the 1895 state census and the 1900 and 1910 federal censuses.^8,2,9 They are listed in Union, Hudson Co., New Jersey, in the 1920 census.¹⁰
     He worked for the West Shore Railroad, as a conductor from 1875 to 1900, and as a pier watchman from 1910 to 1920⁴, and was a member of the Order of Railroad Conductors.⁴

     Mattie Kline was born on 22 April 1867 in New Jersey^1,2, and baptized on 15 January 1868 in Schraalenburgh (now Dumont), Bergen Co., New Jersey.¹ She married Ira B. Haring on 25 November 1885 at the home of the bride's grandfather Paul Powless in Harrington Twp., Bergen Co., New Jersey.^3,4 She died on 3 June 1949 in Pearl River, Orangetown, Rockland Co., New York, at age 82.⁵ She was buried at Tappan Cemetery in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.⁶
     She and her husband Ira are listed in Orangetown, Rockland Co., New York, in the state and federal censuses from 1900 to 1930.^{7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14}
     She is again listed in Orangetown in 1940, after her husband's death, living with her niece Jessie (Kline) Smith, daughter of her brother William, and Jessie's husband Walter.¹⁵
     At the time of her husband's death in 1933 he was serving as the school tax collector in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York, and she was appointed as his replacement.¹⁶

     Sarah Jane Kline was born on 16 June 1869 in Norwood, Bergen Co., New Jersey,² and baptized on 14 November 1869 at the Presbyterian Church in Norwood.¹ She married Daniel Parsels on 29 July 1891 in Haworth, Bergen Co., New Jersey.³ She died on 22 November 1940 at Nyack Hospital in Nyack, Rockland Co., New York, at age 71.⁴ She was buried at Tappan Cemetery in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.⁵
     She and her husband Daniel and their children are listed in Orangetown, Rockland Co., New York, in the censuses from 1905 to 1930. Daniel's brother Bogart was living with them from 1905 to 1925.^{6,7,8,9,10,11,12}
     She is again listed in Orangetown, in the hamlet of Sparkill, in the 1940 census, after her husband's death. Her daughter Helen was still with her, along with Robert Shields, listed as "nephew."¹³

     Kittie Kline was born on 16 July 1871 in Rockland Co., New York. (The date is from her cemetery marker. The 1900 census says July 1872, and her death certificate says 16 July 1873.)^4,3 She married first William H. Haring on 22 February 1888 in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.⁵ She married second Arthur Osborn Barnett, son of Samuel Osborn Barnett and Katherine E. Ross, on 22 April 1927 at the Church of the Holy Communion in Manhattan, New York Co., New York.¹ She died on 25 April 1948 at the City Hospital on Welfare Island (now Roosevelt Island) in Manhattan at age 76.² She was buried at Tappan Cemetery in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.⁴
     She and her first husband William may have separated, or met with some misfortune that caused the family to split up. In 1900 she was living as a servant for Charles Artel and his wife Hellen in Manhattan, New York Co., New York, and listed in the census as having been married for thirteen years with three children⁶, while William was living in Mamaroneck, Westchester Co., New York, as a boarder in a hotel, and listed as single.⁷ Their son Harold, age 12, was living as a boarder in the household of Jerome & Grace Bolmer in North Bergen Twp., Hudson Co., New Jersey⁸; Norman, age 9, was living with the family of Mossler and Sarah Greene in Overpeck Twp., Bergen Co., New Jersey, and listed as their nephew⁹; and Clyde, age 5, was living with his mother's uncle William Powless and his wife Anna in Alma, Park Co., Colorado.¹⁰
     She and her children were back together by 1910, after her husband William's death, when they were enumerated in Manhattan, New York Co., New York, in the census.¹¹ She is again listed in Manhattan in the 1915 state census and the 1920 federal census, as a widow^12,13, and she and her second husband Arthur are listed together there in the 1930 census.¹⁴

     William Henry Kline was born on 2 May 1874 in Rockland Co., New York.^2,3 He married first Josephine Parsell on 8 November 1893 in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.⁴ He married second Alice Quick (see below). He died on 2 May 1936 at Ideal Hospital in Endicott, Broome Co., New York, at age 62.^5,6
     He and his first wife Josephine are listed in Orangetown, Rockland Co., New York, in the federal and state censuses from 1900 to 1930, with their children Jessie and Harry in 1900 and 1905, Jessie, Harry, and Albert in 1910 and 1915, and Albert from 1920 to 1930.^{7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14} From the censuses, he worked at railroad docks most of his life, as a foreman by 1905. In 1918 his employer was the New York Central Railroad in Wehawken Twp., Hudson Co., New Jersey.²
     No marriage record has been found online for William Kline and Alice Quick, but William's obituary says that he was survived by his wife Alice⁵; the 1936, 1940, and 1941 Endicott, New York, city directories list Alice as Alice Kline, widow of Wm. H.⁵; she is listed as Alice I. Kline in Social Security records¹⁵; and she is listed as Mrs. Alice Kline in a news article about her daughter Vivian's marriage in 1947.¹⁶ Her surname is from Vivian's marriage record, which gives Quick as her mother's maiden name.¹⁷
     The information found online for William is confusing. It appears that he was married twice, first to Josephine Parsell, then to Alice Quick, and that he had three children with Josephine from 1894 to 1907 (Jessie, Harry, and Albert), and one with Alice in 1926 (Vivian). But as noted above, he is listed in the censuses with Josephine from 1900 to 1930 in Orangetown, New York, and Alice is listed on her own in 1930 in Jersey City, New Jersey.¹⁸
     Further, his name appears on two cemetery markers, one with Josephine at Tappan Cemetery in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York, and one with Alice at Riverside Cemetery in Endicott, Broome Co., New York. The first marker is inscribed "William H. 1874-1936, His Wife Josephine B. 1869-1958." William and Josephine's daughter Jessie and her husband share the marker, inscribed as "Walter Smith 1895-1975, His Wife Jessie Kline 1894-1968." The second marker is inscribed "Kline, William H. 1874-1936, Alice Kline Knapp 1891-1983."^19,20
     One might wonder if there were two men with the same name and birth/death years, one who married Josephine (call him William 1), and one who married Alice (William 2). However, two pieces of evidence dispute this. First, the obituary of William 2 names a sister, Mrs. Arthur Barnett of New York City. Mrs. Arthur Barnett is Kittie (Kline) (Haring) Barnett, daughter of Peter Kline and Marie Antoinette Powless.⁵ Second, in the 1940 census Jessie (Kline) Smith, daughter of William 1, is listed with her husband Walter, and their household includes Mattie (Kline) Haring, daughter of Peter Kline and Marie Antoinette Powless, listed as "aunt."^21,22 Together these show that William 1 and William 2 are the same person, son of Peter Kline and Marie Antoinette Powless.
     Another possibility is that the father of Alice Quick's daughter Vivian, born in 1926, was someone else, and that William adopted her after they were married. But a transcript of Vivian's birth record lists her surname as Kline.²³ Further, a note at her entry at Find A Grave says she was raised by her aunt Katharine Helena Quick Johnston in Harford [Susquehanna Co., Pennsylvania], and she is listed with the surname Kline in the 1940 census, living with Katharine H. Johnston in Harford.^24,25

     Ira B. Haring was born in September 1862 in New York.² He married Mattie Kline, daughter of Peter Kline and Maria Antoinette Powless, on 25 November 1885 at the home of the bride's grandfather Paul Powless in Harrington Twp., Bergen Co., New Jersey.^1,3 He died on 19 January 1933 at age 70 from acute appendicitis.^4,5 He was buried at Tappan Cemetery in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.⁶
     He and his wife Mattie are listed in Orangetown, Rockland Co., New York, in the state and federal censuses from 1900 to 1930.^{2,7,8,9,10,11,12,13} His occupation was listed as painter in 1900 and 1930, poultryman in 1905 and 1910, school janitor in 1915 and 1920, and school treasurer in 1925.
     At the time of his death in 1933 he was serving as the school tax collector in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York, and his wife Mattie was appointed as his replacement.⁵

     Daniel Parsels was born in 1865.² He married Sarah Jane Kline, daughter of Peter Kline and Maria Antoinette Powless, on 29 July 1891 in Haworth, Bergen Co., New Jersey.¹ He died on 13 October 1935 in Sparkill, Orangetown, Rockland Co., New York.^3,4 He was buried at Tappan Cemetery in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.³
     He and his wife Sarah and their children are listed in Orangetown, Rockland Co., New York, in the censuses from from 1905 to 1930. Daniel's brother Bogart was living with them from 1905 to 1925.^{5,6,7,8,9,10,11} He was listed as a blacksmith from 1905 to 1915, and as a sawmill worker from 1920 to 1930.

     William H. Haring was born in August 1865 in New York.² He married Kittie Kline, daughter of Peter Kline and Maria Antoinette Powless, on 22 February 1888 in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.¹ He died on 16 September 1904 in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York, at age 39.³
     He and his wife Kittie may have separated, or met with some misfortune that caused the family to split up. In 1900 Kittie was living as a servant for Charles Artel and his wife Hellen in Manhattan, New York Co., New York, and listed in the census as having been married for thirteen years with three children⁴, while William was living in Mamaroneck, Westchester Co., New York, as a boarder in a hotel, and listed as single.² Their son Harold, age 12, was living as a boarder in the household of Jerome & Grace Bolmer in North Bergen Twp., Hudson Co., New Jersey⁵; Norman, age 9, was living with the family of Mossler and Sarah Greene in Overpeck Twp., Bergen Co., New Jersey, and listed as their nephew⁶; and Clyde, age 5, was living with his mother's uncle William Powless and his wife Anna in Alma, Park Co., Colorado.⁷

     Arthur Osborn Barnett was born on 1 September 1884 in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York.² He married first Kittie Kline, daughter of Peter Kline and Maria Antoinette Powless, on 22 April 1927 at the Church of the Holy Communion in Manhattan, New York Co., New York.¹ He married second Katherine Florence Petrone on 11 December 1948 at the Church on the Hill in Flushing, Queens Co., New York.³ He died in February 1965 at age 80.⁴
     He and his first wife Kittie are listed in Manhattan, New York Co., New York, in the 1930 census.⁵ He and his second wife Katherine are listed in Queens Co., New York, in the 1950 census, along with Katherine's mother Lucia Petrone.⁶

     Josephine Parsell was born in December 1869 in New York.³ She married William Henry Kline, son of Peter Kline and Maria Antoinette Powless, on 8 November 1893 in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.² She died on 19 December 1958.¹ She was buried at Tappan Cemetery in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.¹
     She and her husband William are listed in Orangetown, Rockland Co., New York, in the federal and state censuses from 1900 to 1930, with their children Jessie and Harry in 1900 and 1905, Jessie, Harry, and Albert in 1910 and 1915, and Albert from 1920 to 1930.^{3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10} She is again listed in Orangetown, in the hamlet of Tappan, in the 1940 census after her husband's death, again with her son Albert.¹¹

     Alice Quick was born on 9 November 1891.^1,2 She married first William Henry Kline, son of Peter Kline and Maria Antoinette Powless (see below). She married second Frank Knapp.^3,4 She died on 30 July 1983 at the Vestal Nursing Home in Vestal, Broome Co., New York, at age 91.² She was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Endicott, Broome Co., New York.^2,5
     No marriage record has been found online for William Kline and Alice Quick, but William's obituary says that he was survived by his wife Alice⁶; the 1936, 1940, and 1941 Endicott, New York, city directories list Alice as Alice Kline, widow of Wm. H.⁶; she is listed as Alice I. Kline in Social Security records¹; and she is listed as Mrs. Alice Kline in a news article about her daughter Vivian's marriage in 1947.⁷ Her surname is from Vivian's marriage record, which gives Quick as her mother's maiden name.⁸
     She is listed in the 1930 census as single, rooming with James and Marie Kloeblen in Jersey City, Hudson Co., New Jersey, and working as a stenographer in a real estate office.⁹
     She has not been found in the 1940 census, but she is listed in the 1936, 1940, and 1941 city directories for Endicott, Broome Co., New York, as Alice Kline, widow of Wm. H.¹⁰
     The 1941 directory notes that she moved to Binghamton, Broome Co., and she is listed there in various Binghamton city directories from 1944 to 1957 and in the 1950 census, working for IBM. Living with her as a lodger by 1950 was Frank Knapp, who she would later marry.^11,12