Harry Kline
Burial Date: 18 Aug 1943
Burial Plot: Section 4, side 5B, grave 7
Burial Place: West Roxbury, Massachusetts

Harry Kline
3909 Pine Phila Penn
June 10 1887
naturalized citizen
Leban-Cousland [?] Russia
Veterinary student
single, Caucasian
Defective eye sight

Kline, Harry
109 Elmo St., Dorchester
June 10th 1887, Liban, Russia
Farmer, Unmarried

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From http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lit...:

<Before World War I the Agudath Yisrael party was very active. The list contains the names of paying 78 members. The economic situation of Zhidik deteriorated in these years to such an extent that the estate owners had to donate flour and firewood to the needy people. Emigration to America and South Africa increased and almost every week a family departed to a new country.>

And many of them took the name 'Harry Kline'.

<During World War I, in the summer of 1915, the remaining Zhidik Jews were exiled to remote parts of Russia.>

Simply "Harry Kline".

I am beginning to doubt the middle initial, Gaige notwithstanding. Every reference I've found has been for "Harry Kline" or "Dr. Harry Kline". There is a "Harry P Kline" from Philadelphia in the 1900s-1910s, but he is a billiards player who keeps losing to Willie Hoppe.

From U.S. College Students Lists, University of Pennsylvania, Veterinary, p. 775:

“Harry Kline, V. M. D., 1917; Veterinarian; attached O. R. C., U. S. A. 5324 Lyndale Ave., S. Minneapolis, Minn.”

Whatever O. R. C. is. The Minnesota stay ca. 1917-1927 explains why there are few (if any) chess reports in online newspapers from that period.

From US City Directories:

1919 St. Paul, Minnesota Kline Harry Vet insptr B of A Ind rms 238 5th av N S St P

1921 Minneapolis, Minnesota, Veterinary surgeons [--] Kline Harry 5320 Lyndale av S

1922 Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kline Harry Veterinary surgeon 5324 Lyndale av S r same

1924 Minneapolis Minnesota Kline Harry Veterinarian Surgeon 5324 Lyndale av S

"<Harry Kline>, a special student for the past year in the Townsend high school, has received word that he has successfully passed the entrance examinations for the University of Pennsylvania. His marks in the languages were in the 80's and in science and mathematics in the 90's. When Mr. Kline entered the high school last fall he had never attended grammar school, his only preparation being a little private tutoring. When we add to this the fact that he has been working his way through school his success seems nothing short of marvelous and reflects great credit upon himself and upon the school. Mr. Kline is to take a course in veterinary medicine at the University ot Pennsylvania."

From Minnesota Alumni Weekly, 24 March 1919, p. 10:

“Articles were signed last night at the Boston Chess Club between Harlow B. Daly, the secretary of the Metropolitan chess league and member of the Dorchester Chess Club, and <Harry J. Kline>, the crack player of the Paul Morphy Club for a series of games and a money stake. [---] The first game will be decided at the Boston Chess Club Monday night, March 4, and the contest is to end April 1.”

There was a Paul Morphy Club in Boston, and cf. Harlow Bussey Daly.

Philadelphia Inquirer 23 Dec. 1906:

“On December 6 a match was played between the Central High School Chess Club and the Chess Club of the West Philadelphia Y. M. C. A. at the rooms of the latter club. The result was as follows: [---] <Kline>, 1 Noble, 1 [---]”

Gaige has Zhidik Lithuania URS
1930 census has Latvia
Naturalization Index 1913 has Liban Russia.
World War I Cards, 1917-1918 has Leban-Cousland Russia

<The Late Dr. Henry> [sic] <Kline

We are indebted to Barnie F. Winkelman, of Philadelphia, for information concerning the passing of Dr. Harry Kline, prominent in his youth in intercollegiate chess, and subsequently active in Boston, Philadelpha, and New York circles. We quote from Mr. Winkelman's communication:

"Possibly you noted the death of our good friend, Dr. Harry Kline, in Waltham, Mass., last month. I knew him for many years, from the days when we were on the chess team of the University of Pennsylvania together.

"He had come down from Boston, where he had just won the New England chmpionship, and he did well in the tournaments of the Philadelpha and Pennsylvania chamionships.

"He was a man of sterling character and a real sportsman. He loved chess and it meant much to him. Few knew how hard he had worked to achieve his rank as Doctor of Veterinary Medicine; and as a professional man his days were a continued round of duties. Near the end, he became Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Boston University, but the strain had already weakened him.

"Prof. Harry Kline Dies Suddenly

A heart attack at his home, 95 Adams street, Waltham, yesterday morning, caused the sudden death of Dr. Harry P. Kline, a professor of anatomy at the Middlesex University School of Veterinary Science.

Dr. Kline had been a resident of Waltham for the past year and was a member of the Beth Israel Community. He was born in Lithuania. He received his education in this country and was a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of Pennsylvania. He was an agriculturist as well as a veterinarian.