JOHN BOLLER
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.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 718.
