When James Walter Bollinger was born on 20 November 1846, in Bollinger, Missouri, United States, his father, Philip Bollinger, was 21 and his mother, Margaret Stone Bennett, was 18. He married Louisa Jane Twidwell on 7 October 1866. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Black River Township, Wayne, Missouri, United States in 1900 and St. Francois Township, Wayne, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died on 24 December 1915, in Greenville, Wayne, Missouri, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Bollinger Cemetery, St. Francois Township, Wayne, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1851: Bollinger, Missouri, United States
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Swiss German and German: habitational name for someone from any of the three places called Bollingen, in canton Schwyz, in Württemberg and Oldenburg, or from Bohlingen near Lake Constance (which is pronounced and was formerly written as Bollingen).
English (Isle of Wight): variant of Bullinger or Pullinger .
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): artificial construction made by Austrian clerks based on German Bolle ‘bulb, bowl’ to which the ending -inger, frequently found in German names based on toponyms, was added.
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