Line Family

Lemuel McClellan Line was born in Boonsborough, Maryland, on November 14, 1861. He began medical school at Rush Medical College and finished his training at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland, 1884. He began practicing in Nebraska and moved to Columbus, Montana, in 1894. He became the district Northern Pacific Railway doctor. Dr. Line married Mary Alice Campbell on September 3, 1890. They had two children, Robert Campbell and Ruth Marie. Dr. Line’s Montana business interests beyond his practice included the Columbus Drug Store, Reed Point Trading Company, the Eagle Point Trading Company, and the Lake Basin Trading Company. He was also on the school board and started the Congregational Church in Columbus. Dr. Line died in 1917.

Mary Alice Campbell was born in DeWitt, Iowa, November 5, 1862. She received her teaching degree from the Ohio Normal College and taught for ten years in Iowa and Nebraska before she married Lemuel M. Line on September 3, 1890. After their 1895 arrival in Columbus, Montana, Mrs. Line worked in their Columbus store, assisted on surgical cases, and with her husband, joined in many community activities. She taught Sunday school, was active in the Woman’s Club on a statewide basis, sponsored the Stillwater County Library in 1918 and was superintendent of the Congregational Sunday School for a time. Mary Line died in 1930.

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