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Below is a sample of a family biography
included in The History of Southeast Missouri published by Lewis
Publishing Co., in 1915.
These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing
ancestors or filling in the details in a family tree. Family biographies often
include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.
Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place
of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including
maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if
married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service,
church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often
ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical
record.
CHARLES F. BOLLINGER, an influential farmer in Patton,
Bollinger county, Missouri, after engaging in milling for a short time has
come back to the farm as the place to perform his life work. Every year there
are an increasing number of men who become farmers on their own account, which
is a very desirable condition of affairs. Mr. Bollinger realizes that a man
should receive the rewards of his own labors, and there is no class of work in
which this is so much the case as in agricultural pursuits. The scene of Mr.
Bollinger's entrance into the world was a farm on Little Whitewater Creek,
Bollinger county, where his parents, Henry A. and Mary T. Bollinger, still
maintain their residence. This worthy couple were the parents of twelve
children, eleven of whom are living, Emma, Charles F., Sarah, Philip, Grover,
Orlean, Amon, Joseph, Kyes, Robert and Treecy. Brought up on his father's
farm, Charles F. Bollinger early learned to take his part in the conduct of
the work, and until he was twenty years of age he divided his time between his
educational training and the cultivation of the land. He then entered the
employ of Hawn and Bollinger, millers at Patton, Missouri, made himself master
of the milling industry, and in 1901 purchased the mill. He snccessfully
superintended its management for the ensuing two years, when he disposed of
his holdings and in 1903 and 1904 was employed by the Whitewater Stave
Factory. By that time he had determined to return to the farm and is now the
proprietor of one hundred and thirty acres of good land in the Little
Whitewater Valley, on which he erected a beautiful residence in May, 1909. The
year which marked Mr. Bollinger's return to farming was also noteworthy as
being the one in which he was united in marriage to Miss Priscilla Seabaugh,
the union having been consummated on the 20th day of March, 1904. They now
have three children, Delcie, born May 8, 1905 ; Christian S., whose birth
occurred on the 8th day of April, 1906; and Henry Lavina, the date of whose
nativity was July 25, 1911. Mrs. Bollinger is a daughter of Christian and
Sarah E. (Masters) Seabaugh, well known residents of Bollinger county.
Christian Seabaugh, a farmer and stock raiser, was born on the first day of
March, 1850, in the county in which he always resided. His father was
Christian and his mother Priscilla; his grandfather, Christian, was a native
of North Carolina and later became a settler in this county. He located on a
Spanish grant of land about six miles east of the place where the grandson now
resides. Christian Seabaugh (III), by reason of his industry, accumulated an
estate of eleven hundred acres and a few years ago he settled all but eight
hundred acres on his children. In 1869 he married Miss Sarah Masters, daughter
of Christopher Masters, of Bollinger county, and he became the father of ten
children, eight of whom are living,-Priscilla, wife of C. F. Bollinger, the
subject of this sketch; whose birth occurred June 12, 1873; Wilbert E., a
farmer, born June 22, 1875; Christian C., a farmer, who began life January 12,
1879; Dayton, the date of whose birth was August 22, 1882; Dr. O. L., who was
born January 9, 1885, one of Patton's prominent physicians, whose biography
appears on other pages of this history; Effie, whose birth occurred March 13,
1887; Ottie, born July 19, 1889; and Louis Arnold, the date of whose birth was
October 13, 1891. Mrs. Bollinger belongs to the Lutheran church, and the
husband is a member of the Mutual Protective League. He has never cared to
dabble much in politics, and he believes that the fitness of the man for
office is of more consequence than the predominance of any party. Mr. and Mrs.
Bollinger have many friends in the county which bears their name-friends who
respect and esteem both husband and wife.
This family biography is one of 971 biographies
included in the
The History of Southeast Missouri published
in 1915. For the complete description, click here:
History of Southeast Missouri Region
To view maps of each of the 15 counties in Southeast
Missouri, click here:
Missouri County Maps
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