John Philip Cline was a Lutheran minister from Shenandoah County, Va. who, according to John G. Morris, had a ministry of about thirty years in Virginia and Maryland before his death. John Gottlieb Morris attended Princeton College and Dickinson College. He studied with Samuel Simon Schmucker at New Market, Va., attended Princeton Theological Seminary and was a member of the first class in Gettysburg Theological Seminary. He founded the Lutheran Observer and was president of the Maryland Synod and the General Synod. He and his nephew founded the Lutheran Historical Society. Morris was a frequent lecturer before the Smithsonian Institution and author of the Catalogue of the Described Lepidoptera of North America (1860) among other scientific and religious publications.
From the description of Cline papers, 1824-1847. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 22669813
