George Frederick Bollinger (1770 - 1842)

Born 1770 in Province of North Carolina

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Died 23 Sep 1842 at about age 72 in Burfordville, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States

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Biography

George Bollinger is Notable.

George was born about 1772. He is the son of Heinrich Bollinger and Elizabeth Wohlraber. He died 1842.

BURIAL Bollinger Cemetery Burfordville, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA^[1]

Bollinger County, Missouri is named for him.

Howard Louis Conard, editor, Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri (Published 1901), pp. 316 - 318.

Bollinger County was organized by an act of the State Legislature, approved 3/1/1851. It was formed of portions of Wayne, Cape Girardeau and Stoddard Counties, and named in honor of George Frederick Bollinger. Bollinger was born in North Carolina of Swiss parentage. His father was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army and was shot at his home by Tories. George Frederick was the fourth son. In 1796 he settled on the White Water River, then in the district of Cape Girardeau. He had a companion named Moose, who remained only a short time in this region. Bollinger became acquainted with Louis Lorimier, commandant of the post at Cape Girardeau, who promised him concessions of land if he would induce settlers to locate in the country. According to the Spanish rules, settlers could locate on 800 arpens of land (about 640 acres) upon payment of fees which amounted to forty-one dollars, but they were required to make improvements and to become permanent settlers.

Bollinger returned to North Carolina, and came back to Upper Louisiana with his wife and twenty colonists and their families. This party came across the country from North Carolina in wagons, and crossed the Mississippi River at St. Genevieve, 1/1/1800. Members of this expedition were Mathias, John, Henry, William, Daniel and Philip Bollinger and families; Peter and Conrad Stutler, Joseph Nyswonger, George and Peter Grount, Peter Crytes, John and Jacob Cotner, John and Isaac Miller, Frederick Limbough, Leonard Welker and Frank Slinkard. All were of German or Swiss parentage and members of the German Reformed Church. They all located on land along White Water River, each taking up from three to four hundred arpens.

Soon after, by order of Lorimier, the members of the colony were formed into a militia company, under the command of George Frederick Bollinger, and became one of the best mounted and drilled organizations in the Territory. Bollinger built a log mill about 1801, and soon replaced it with a stone one. At this mill, for many years, was ground the bread stuff of the inhabitants. Other settlers on the White Water were Valentine Lorr, Handel Barks, Elijah Welsh, Daniel Hildebrand and William Patterson, all of whom located on land in 1803...

Major Bollinger was a member of the first Territorial Assembly, and a member of the State Senate for a number of terms, and in 1828 was made president pro tem. of that body. In 1836 he was one of the presidential electors. He died in 1842. Soon after his settlement on White Water his wife died, leaving one daughter, who married Joseph Frizel, and after his death she became the wife of Ralph Dougherty. She was the owner of the first piano in Cape Girardeau district.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #33350277
2. ↑ Howard Louis Conard, editor, Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri (Published 1901), pp. 316 - 318.

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• Frank Nickell, KRCU Southeast Missouri's NPR station broadcast 4 September 2018.