This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bollinger, Statler, Connard, Hawn, Grouse, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TMB.2ACI/3301 Message Board Post: History of SE Missouri, Goodspeed Publishing 1888 Biographical Appendix, page 822 JOSEPH M. BOLLINGER Joseph M. Bollinger, a miller of White Water Township, Bollinger Co., Mo., is a son of Moses Bollinger, who, was born in Lincoln County, N.C. in 1789. Moses was a descendant of a family of North Carolina Dutch, and received a fair education in German and English. When quite young, his parents removed to Cape Girardeau County, Mo., where he was married in 1813 to Miss Elizabeth Statler, a daughter of Peter Statler and wife, both also of German descent, and natives of the Old North State. In his youth, Moses Bollinger, worked on a farm and learned the tanner’s trade, but after his marriage he worked on a farm and followed that vocation until his death in 1854. His wife died in 1838. They were the parents of seven children, viz.: Polly (afterward the wife of Judge Connard), Mathias, Joseph M., Peter, Priscilla (wife of Ephraim Hawn), John, and Francis (wife of Frederick Grouse). Joseph M. was born in 1819, and as facilities were poor received a very limited educa! tion. He early began to work on the farm, and when twenty-five years of age was united in marriage with Miss Priscilla Bollinger. He owned eighty acres of land upon which he located after his marriage, and engaged in farming. Like many others, in 1852 he started to California in search of gold. Making the journey with an ox team, he was seven months on the route, after which he mined in different portions of the State, and returned home in 1854, and resumed farming. Knowing something of the milling business, in 1878, he purchased an old mill, which he remodeled into a good mill, which he now operates, and is doing a good business. His marriage has been blessed by the birth of six children: William A., Eeran L., Moses E., Reuben W., David and Henry. In religious belief, Mr. Bollinger is a Presbyterian. He is a member of the Farmer’s Alliance. During the war he served six months in the State Militia.