Person:William Bollinger (2)

WILLIAM BOLLINGER, a leading citizen of Wood CO, operates a good farm of eighty acres, in Section 12, Portage township. He came to the CO in 1873 a poor man-poor in everything but pluck and indomitable will-power. He has met with serious reverses in his business career, suffered a great deal from fever and ague, which resulted disastrously to his financial interests, but he commenced life on his present farm with renewed zeal. His sound judgment and shrewd management brought him success, and gave him an assured footing among the well-to-do farmers of the community. Mr. Bollinger was born in York CO, Penn., February 5, 1834, and is the second in a family of fifteen children, eight sons and seven daughters. His father, John Bollinger, was a millwright by trade. In the subscription schools our subject was educated, then learned the trade which his father followed. On June 5, 1862, in his native CO, he married Lydia Stump, who was born in Maryland, January 4, 1841, and they have become the parents of the following children: Amelia, born April 28, 1863, in York CO, Penn., was married to John Huber, of Montgomery township, Wood CO, March 10, 1881; Oliver J., born July 29, 1865, died January 12, 1866; John, born October 19, 1866; Albenia, born August 2, 1868; William, born December 3, 1871, died in infancy; Barbara E., born March 5, 1873, married Frank A. Hastings, March 31, 1896; Elias, born September 16. 1874; and Jacob, born April 11, 1882. On coming to Wood CO, in 1873, Mr. Bollinger rented land for four years in Montgomery township, and then purchased his present place, which was covered with timber. For a time he made cross ties, which he would haul to Woodville, OH, and sell; but now devotes his time wholly to the cultivation of his land. He is straightforward and honorable in all his dealings; but has lost considerable money through unprincipled men with whom he has had transactions. He casts his ballot with the Democratic party; and he and his wife attend the Dunkard Church.