Source:
Evansville and its Men of Mark
Edward White, Editor. Evansville, Ind.
Historical Publishing Company, 1873.
Pages 119-120

      The business education of the youth of our land has for some time attracted the attention of parents. For several years the Commercial College of the city has sent forth, annually, from its halls several hundred young men, prepared for the busy walks of commercial life. As the head of this prominent educational feature of our city, Mr. Kleiner has become noted, not only as a successful teacher, but also as a leading citizen of the Crescent City.

      He was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, in 1845. When our subject was only three years of age, his parents removed to Medina County, Ohio, and located within thirty miles of Cleveland. He prepared for college at the Eclectic Institute, Hiram, Ohio, and was under the charge of Professor Platt R. Spencer, the celebrated teacher of penmanship, for nearly two years. He left the Institute and enlisted in the Second Ohio Cavalry, as a private, for three months, and re-enlisted in the Eighty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and served till the Summer of 1864; when, on account of the expiration of his terra of service he was discharged. He entered Dennison University in 1864, and remained there three years. In 1867 he came to Indianapolis and studied bookkeeping at Gregory's Commercial College.

      In the Fall of 1867 he became connected with the business management of the Evansville Commercial College; of which, since, since that date, he has become the sole proprietor. The College has prospered from its commencement; and on its catalogue are found, annually, the names of nearly five hundred students. The system as taught by Professor Kleiner is that adopted by the leading Business Colleges of the country; and the citizens can justly he proud of an institution which attracts to our city so many of the young men - and ladies, also - of this and the neighboring States. The people last Spring expressed their confidence in his integrity by electing him a member of the City Council from the Sixth Ward.