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Welcome To Sullivan County, Indiana
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WILLIAM H. BOLINGERWILLIAM H. BOLINGER, a native of Kentucky, was born in Maysville, July 21, 1821, son of Henry and Susanna Bolinger, natives of Pennsylvania. The parents married in Pennsylvania and settled in Kentucky, about the year 1812. The father was a glass mixer and worked in the shops of Maysville until operations were suspended. Our subject, at the age of one year, was taken by his parents to a farm in the country near Maysville, where he was reared and educated. At the age of twenty-three he left home to do for himself, rented a farm and continued to occupy it until 1854, when he purchased 106 acres two miles from Maysville, where he remained until 1865, when he sold out and purchased 137 acres of his present farm of 292 acres. June 2, 1844, he married Miss Victoria, daughter of Bartholomew Clause. This lady was born September 22, 1825, within eight miles of the city of Paris, France, but was reared and educated in Kentucky. She has borne her husband children as follows: Caroline, John H., Charles B., William T., James S., Annettie, Frederick J. and one deceased, Edward S. Mr. Bolinger is a Republican, and a member of the F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F. fraternities, and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.HAMILTON TWP. PAGE 717 FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. 1884, CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. |
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