BIOS: William H. Bolinger, Mason Co., KY

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File submitted by: Diana Flynn (ivie@tima.com) Date: 7-27-98
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"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO
THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES,
ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., IN. HAMILTON TWP.

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WILLIAM 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.