Abe B. Cline, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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ral Histor• Institute A.B. Cline ---8 Inter iewed by Leslie Kelen AC ~ father as born in Nishtat. It's a fairly large city; it's not a village. My mother was born They were both born in Korni-Kaverne. You know what that is? That is the county in Lithuania. Korni is the district, acountry around Kaverne. It is kind of large. L And they were born there? AC Yes. And my mother was born in a small village. The name of which I don't know. And Dad was born in Nishtat. L Did your father have a profession there? AC My father, of course, was a child when he left there. My grandfather was an intensely religious man. He would go to r Ge~ay, I guess, every winter and tutor children in a wealthy family. My grandfather, from what I have learned from my father and from other people who knew him, was a very highly respected man. Because of his learning .. and his intense religiousness. The making a living didn't -- is somthing [that was] a by product for him. Practising his religion was the main object. However, a newphew, the boyhood churn of my father's in Machester, England, back in 1919, after the First World War, right after the First World War, told me my granfather was Rob David, named David Cline, and he was so highly respected that they always mentioned r his name in a w~iper. However, none of his sons, well only one of his sons followed in his footsteps,. They were all non-