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Gabriel Drollinger (1810 - 1887)

Gabriel Drollinger
Born in Guilford County, North Carolinamap
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Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Died at age 77 in LaPorte, Indianamap
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Biography

[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.


Sources

  1. History of La Porte County, Indiana: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens
  • "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHBK-S94 : accessed 23 March 2016), Gabriel Drollinger, LaPorte, Indiana, United States; citing p. 128, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 85; FHL microfilm 7,727.




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