BIO:  Emanuel K. Bollinger, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 170

EMANUEL K. BOLLINGER, born in York County, October, 1825, is the son of Peter and Catherine 
(Klinefelter) Bollinger, of Swiss and German descent.  Joseph and Henry Bollinger, with their 
mother, came to America about the year 1754, and from Joseph has descended the subject of this 
sketch, who began life on a farm, and entered the milling business under his uncle, N. Seitz, 
at the age of fourteen years, and at the age of twenty-two, having saved $750 form his 
earnings, he began business for himself at Seitzland, where he has since resided, engaged in 
connection with milling, in mercantile business, as a member of the firm of Klinefelter & Co., 
sixteen years, and in the milling and grain business exclusively, eight years; bought the real 
estate now occupied by him, in his business in 1866; in 1874, began the manufacture of 
Bollinger’s Ammoniated Phosphates, and is now doing business as miller, grain dealer, and 
manufacturer and dealer in phosphates; has been agent of the Northern Central Railway Company, 
at Seitzland, since 1872, and postmaster since 1875; is president of the Glen Rock 
Manufacturing Company, and a director of the First National Bank, of Glen Rock, and was a 
charter member of both organizations; is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the I. O. 
O. F. Lodge and Encampment.  In Gettysburg, Adams Co., Penn., in 1849, he was married to 
Barbara Roser and they have had eight children:  Stephen R., Abtil, Aaron, Amanda (wife of E. 
Dickson, Esq.), George W., Uriah G., Angelina (deceased), and Eva Jane, wife of T. B. Seitz, 
Esq.  Mr. Bollinger is an elder and the whole family are members of the Lutheran Church.