George Dewey Bollinger (married to Emma Jane Nichols) was the son of Francis John Bollinger (1871-1928), who was the son of Francis Joseph Bollinger (1849-1895), who was the son of Johannes Bollinger, who immigrated to the U.S. in the mid 1830s and married Regina Freimann from Alsace, France in Buffalo, NY April 6, 1836. They moved to Zanesville and had their first child in January, 1838, and then had more children there. Your ancestor was the youngest child of that family (born August 6, 1849).