[1]Gabriel Drollinger a farmer on sec 33 and a very old settler of this tp was born in North Carolina in 1810 and is of German descent. He is the fifth child in a family of 7 children whose parents were Frederick and Barbara Warrick Drollinger. They were natives of North Carolina and are now both dead. Mr D came to Indiana in 1830 and first settled in St Joseph county where he lived as a hired hand most of the time for five years and then came to La Porte county in 1835 and located in Wills tp. He was married in 1834 to Mary E Chapman who is now 65 years of age a native of New York. They have had 13 children of whom 9 are now living; Martha M now the Widow Tennis, Polly the wife of Joseph Hostotler, a farmer of this tp, Josephine A, formerly the wife of Dr Collins of La Porte, Joseph a farmer in Kansas, Jared a farmer of this tp, Manford Quinby Schuyler and George, Two of the last four are physicians in South Bend the other two are residents of this tp. Mr D held the office of School Trustee in this tp for two or three terms. Politically he is a Republican. His education was confined to that of a subscription school in a log house having paper for windows. Mr D owns 350 acres of ordinary land well improved. He had no start in life but worked as a hired hand until he was 24 years old. He has succeeded well.
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