Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of Cass County, Iowa Continental Historical Company Springfield, ILL; 1884 [718] CHAPTER XXVII ------------- BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP Early Settlement JOHN BOLLER was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, November 24, 1844. His father, ADAM BOLLER, died in 1846. His mother, RUTH (ATHERTON) BOLLER, lives in Grant county, Indiana, with her son, REUBEN BOLLER. JOHN BOLLER and RACHEL TIPPEY were married November 30, 1865. She was born in Grant county, Indiana. Her parents died in that county. MR. BOLLER followed farming in Grant county, until he came to Cass county, October 6, 1875. He had visited the county the previous spring, and purchased his present farm, then unimproved prairie, in section 15. It contains one hundred and sixty acres, now all under good improvement. Mr. and Mrs. BOLLER have seven children — LAURA, born in November, 1866; MURRAY L., born in August, 1868; AMY, born in July, 1870; DICY, born in July, 1872; PHOEBE L., born in August, 1874; MAGGIE, born in December, 1876; and ALBERT, born in February, 1882. ===========================================================================