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- Dropped out of school in the 8th grade. Worked at American Steel Wire for a while as a clerk. Uncle Dolph worked as a salesman for Gulf Oil Company. Sold the contract for gasoline on the Pennsylvania turnpike and was promoted to Vice President in charge of sales. He was a short heavy set man with a deep voice and a big nose. He was a member ot the Sons of the American Revolution through his descent from John McGinnis of Carlisle, a militia Lieutenant. He had the original Commission of William McGinnis of Crawford County PA which is now in the possession of his grand daughter. He also had the Civil War Discharge of his father, Adolph W. Drollinger Sr. which is also in the possession of said grand daughter.
Gordon L. Drollinger
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards
Name: Adolph William Drollinger
Race: Caucasian (White)
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 30 Apr 1894
Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Street address: 526 Avery
Residence Place: Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA
Physical Build: Medium
Height: Medium
Hair Description: Not Bald
Hair Color: Light Brown
Eye Color: Grey
WWI Draft Registration Card, residing 526 Avery St, Pittsburgh, clerk, American Steel Wire, 15th St and Penn Ave Pittsburgh, Goiter Neck, grey eyes, lt brown hair
1920 census residing with mother 66 sister Claire 35, age 25
U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards
Name: Adalph William Drollinger
Age: 48
Birth Date: 30 Apr 1894
Birth Place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Residence Year: 1942
Residence: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Home in 1920: Pittsburgh Ward 23, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Relation to Head of House: son
Household Members:
Name Age
Frances J Drollinger 66
Claire J Drollinger 35
Adolph W Drollinger 25
Drollinger A W r 2637 Perysville av FAirfax 2158
1900 resided on Pike St Allegheny City
1910 resided on Pike St near Carroll
1920 resided on Lockhart St
1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Adolph W Drollinger
Age: 48
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1892
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Son-in-law
Home in 1940: Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Street: Perrysville Avenue
Inferred Residence in 1935: Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Residence in 1935: Same House
Sheet Number: 5B
Household Members:
Name Age
James L Garham 77
Marie G Drollinger 44
Adolph W Drollinger 48
Nancy Drollinger 13
- Baptised at St. Marks Lutheran Butler PA, Godparents Gottlieb and Mary Seif.
As a small child he received a penknife as a gift and promptly carved his initials on each side of the front door to the house in Hannahstown, Butler County PA. According to my father, he was soundly spanked for this act. I saw these initials still on either side of the door in 1970. When the house was being torn down, my father had a piece of the board saved and it is in the celler in Slippery Rock. Adolph ran away to join the Army during the civil war. According to the stories in the family, he ran off three times. the first two times his mother was successful in bringing him back to the farm. He claimed to be 18 but in reality was only 16 at the time. He enlisted in Capt. Cooper's Battery Independent. Battalion (later named Battery A PA Light Artillery) Pennsylvania Artillery (100 days 1864) serving 19 May 1864 to 29 August 1864. Physical description 5 foot 9 1/2 inches tall, had brown hair and hazel eyes. Although his service record is slim it is a safe bet that he served in the fortifications erected around the Pittsburgh area to protect the steel industry and the Allegheny Arsenal. Some of those Forts were named and are familiar to native Pittsburghers. Forts Brunot, McKever, Fulton, Black, Smalls, McKinley, McKnight, Mechanic were the names that came down in an article in the now extinct Pittsburgh Press by George Swetnam. There were some 20 redoubts and 13 Batteries on a Corps of Engineers map made by a Captain Craighill. There is a frustrating one liner that teases. A Camp Brooks is mentioned but no location is given. " Battery A was mentioned as being stationed there."
After the war he enlisted 4 Feb 1867 in K Company 11th Infantry Regiment and served until Experation Term of Service. He was discharged 4 Feb 1870 at Granada MS. According to his pension file he was married at the English Evangelical Lutheran Church in Allegheny City (since 1906 the north side of PGH) by the Rev J(ohn) G. Goettman ( the 2nd Pastor there). This church became Trinity Lutheran and was located at Stockton and Arch Streets. It was torn down for redevelopment in the late 1960s. The church is now located at 616 W. North Ave. The early records are at Thiel College Greenville PA. The church was an off shoot of the English Evangelical Lutheran on Grant Street which is one of the oldest churches in the city.
Family tradition from my uncle Chick has it that he was a very strong man and could lift a barrel of whiskey to drink from. Resided 504 East North Avenue, Pittsburgh PA. He worked at various trades and was killed by falling off a ladder on Neville Island. Resided 174 Ohio Street, Allegheny City in 1890 veteran's census.
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1894 - 1966 (71 years)
