Robert Hagedorn Bolling – Major, United States Army

DR. ROBERT H. BOLLING DIES
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson’s Cousin to be Buried in Arlington Cemetery

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1927 – Dr. Robert Hagedorn Bolling, cousin of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Chief Surgeon of the United States Lines, died in the Chestnut Hill Hospital this afternoon following an operation on Monday.  He was in his sixtieth year.

A son of the late Dr. Robert Bolling, widely known physician, he had spent most of his life in Chestnut Hill, living for the last thirty-six years in the house built by his father.

Dr. Bolling was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and five years later from the university’s Medical School.  He married Miss Julia Campbell Russell, daughter of Rear Admiral A. W. Russell of the United States Navy.

Both Dr. Bolling and his son, Captain Alexander Russell Bolling, now an infantry Major in the regular army, served in the World War, the former being stationed at Plattsburg, the Watervliet, New York, Arsenal. Carlstrom Flying Field, Arcadia, Florida, and Camp Lee, Virginia.  In 1920 he was commissioned to do sanitary work in Nicaragua and since then had been identified with the United States Lines.  Burial will be in the National Cemetery at Arlington.

BOLLING, ROBERT H
MAJOR MED CORPS US ARMY

• DATE OF DEATH: 02/18/1927
• BURIED AT: SECTION 4-S  SITE LOT 3267
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

BOLLING, JULIA C WIDO WOF ROBERT H

• DATE OF DEATH: 02/14/1939
• BURIED AT: SECTION 4  SITE 3267
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

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