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Allan James Bollinger

Birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
17 Nov 1915 (aged 5 days)
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Buried on November 19, 1915. (Death Certificate)

Died in the German-American Hospital.

Source of middle-name: Photocopy - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Cemetery Records: 1864 - 1989 - On this source his first-name is spelled Allen. His Death Certificate & other sources have it as Allan.

His parents were Allan C.M. Bollinger (Born in Pennsylvania); & Anna Kelly (Born in Chicago).

Home: 2013 Fletcher Street, Chicago

Very famous eugenics case. Allowed to die because of congenital malformation. Covered nation-wide in the press, it is also the subject of the book, "The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of Defective Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915", by Martin S. Pernick - Oxford University Press - c 1996.
Buried on November 19, 1915. (Death Certificate)

Died in the German-American Hospital.

Source of middle-name: Photocopy - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Cemetery Records: 1864 - 1989 - On this source his first-name is spelled Allen. His Death Certificate & other sources have it as Allan.

His parents were Allan C.M. Bollinger (Born in Pennsylvania); & Anna Kelly (Born in Chicago).

Home: 2013 Fletcher Street, Chicago

Very famous eugenics case. Allowed to die because of congenital malformation. Covered nation-wide in the press, it is also the subject of the book, "The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of Defective Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915", by Martin S. Pernick - Oxford University Press - c 1996.


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