Biography of John Hollinger, page 789.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

John Hollinger, deceased, was a native of Huntingdon County, Pa., born Sept. 
16, 1812.  He received a common-school education, and was reared a farmer, a 
vocation he always followed.  In 1816 his parents moved to Stark County, 
Ohio, and there he grew to manhood and married, March 26, 1835, Elizabeth 
Borgner, and to them were born eight children, six of whom are living---
George, Jacob, Mary, Isaac, Samuel and Daniel.  John and Sarah are deceased.   
In 1846 they moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and settled in Stafford Township 
where the father died Oct. 7, 1883.  The farm is now carried on by Samuel 
and Daniel, enterprising and industrious young men  It contains 140 acres of 
choice land, and the residence and farm buildings are large an commodious.  
Mr. Hollinger united with the Evangelical Reformed church Oct. 13, 1832, but 
after coming to De Kalb County he and his wife united with the Lutheran 
church.

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