When Charles Elgin Dulin was born on 8 December 1861, in Bentonsport, Van Buren, Iowa, United States, his father, Gustavus E. Dulin, was 53 and his mother, Margaret S Christian, was 30. He married Laura Ann Finley on 8 September 1886, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 26 November 1899, in Bonaparte, Van Buren, Iowa, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Bonaparte, Van Buren, Iowa, United States.
English (Surrey): variant of Dolling, a nickname from an unrecorded Middle English dolling, douling, dulling ‘dull one’. Compare Doll 5, Duling , and Dowling . This variant is now rare in Britain.
Russian: patronymic from the personal name Dula, a pet form of Feodul, which is from Greek Theodoulos ‘slave of God’.
French: from du lin ‘from/of the flax’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a place where flax was grown, or, by extension, an occupational name for someone who grew flax or made linen or canvas.
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