Dickinson Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and
Biographical Album of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and
Marion Counties-Charles R. Hollinger
Portrait and Biographical
Album of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and Marion
Counties
Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1893
CHARLES R. HOLLINGER, a wide-awake
and enterprising young farmer residing on
section 21, Rhinehart Township, Dickinson
County, claims Pennsylvania as the State of his
nativity, his birth having occurred in Lancaster
County on the 20th of September, 1862. He is the
fourth in order of birth in a family of eight children
now living. The parents, Joseph S. and
Anna M. (Miller) Hollinger, are represented elsewhere
in this work. They came to Kansas in the
spring of 1873, and Charles accompanied them.
The common schools of his native State and of
Kansas afforded him his educational privileges.
On the 26th of February, 1888, Mr. Hollinger
was married to Miss Kate McPherren, also a native
of the Keystone State, and a daughter of
Ferris and Margaret (Rea) McPherren, who resides
near Enterprise. One son graces their union. Raymond,
who is now three and a-half years of age.
The following spring after their marriage, they
came to the farm which has since been their home.
Mr. Hollinger now owns and operates four hundred
and eighty acres of arable land on section 21,
Rhinehart Township. Improvements in the way
of buildings have been made to the value of over
$8,000. The home is a handsome ten-room residence,
tastefully furnished, which was erected at a
cost of $5,000. Our subject gives his attention to
the raising of grain and stock. He has about
three hundred acres planted in wheat and one
hundred and sixty-five acres in corn. A thrifty
orchard of young fruit trees also adds to the value
of the place, and a large pasture furnishes food
during the summer months to one hundred head
of cattle. Mr. Hollinger also feeds a great many
hogs, and employs two men to aid him in cultivating
and improving his farm. No finer land can
be found in Kansas than the greater part of that
which constitutes his farm.
Mrs. Hollinger is a member of the Lutheran
Church of Hiawatha, the house of worship standing
one mile east of their farm. On starting
out in life, Mr. Hollinger received substantial aid
from his father, but his success is largely due to
his own industry and good management, supplemented
by the exercise of correct business principles.
He is an upright, honorable young man
and an intelligent farmer who keeps himself well
informed on all questions of the day. Mr. Hollinger,
in connection with his brother A. L., owns
and operates a steam-thresher, and has just
closed this year's threshing, the amount threshed
being sixty thousand bushels. Thirty thousand
bushels of this amount were threshed for the four
Hollinger brothers. This was all done in less than
sixty days.
(c) 2009 Sheryl McClure for
Dickinson County KS AHGP