A. D. PINE
A. D. Pine came to Atlantic on the 18th of May, 1883, and engaged in the business of underwriting mercantile and farm fire insurance. He has met with a deserved success, as he has a number of first-class companies on his list, and tries hard to please his patrons.
A. D. Pine was born in Sullivan county. New York, May 5, 1847, his early life being spent on a farm; he acquired a common school education. He taught school three winters, and took a two years' course in the State normal. He was principal of Blakesley seminary, in Harpersville, for two years, following which he was engaged as teacher for a year and a half in Berryville, after which he served as principal of the Ellenville graded schools for a year and a half. He was married December 26, 1871, to Anna V. Hallock, a native of New York, and one of his former pupils at Berryville. She was a daughter of Daniel V. and Mary A. (Ryder) Hallock, her grandfather being one of the first settlers in Sullivan county. His father, U. S. Pine, is a native of New York, and was born February 28, 1815. His grandfather, James Pine, was one of the early settlers of Long Island. In 1825 his father moved to Orange county, New York, where he remained about five years, when he removed to Sullivan county, where he now resides. His mother was Harriet C. Varnell, born September 4, 1826. Her father was Henry Varnell, who died July 9, 1883, and who was a soldied [sic soldier] in the Mexican War and in the War of 1812, and also a pensioner of the latter. After his marriage, A. D. Pine was a teacher in Sullivan county until 1874, when he went to Port Jarvis, where he was engaged in teaching until 1881. After acting as traveling salesman for two years, he came to Atlantic. He has been a Knight Templar since 1870, and is a member of the Episcopal Church and I. O. O. F. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in company I, One Hundred and Forty-third New York Infantry, and in the fall of 1863, was promoted to the position of corporal, which he held till the close of the war.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 864.
