CHARLES EDWARD BOLLING.
The subject of this sketch was born at Bolling Island, Goochland
county, Virginia, on May 4, 1852. He was educated at Taylors Creek
Academy, Hanover county, Virginia, by Prof. Charles Morris, M. A.,
and at the University of Virginia. At the age of seventeen, he went into
mining engineering, and in 1871 was engaged as a civil engineer on the
Chesapeake & Ohio R. R., remaining with this road until 1873, employed
most of the time as an assistant engineer in the construction of
the Church Hill tunnel, Richmond. In February, 1873, he was appointed
assistant engineer to the city engineer of Richmond, and in that
position he remained until, in July, 1885, he was elected to the office
he is now filling, superintendent of the Richmond city water works.
In December, 1877, Mr. Bolling married Imogen Warwick of Richmond.
He is a son of Thomas Bolling, who was born at Bolling Hall,
Goochland county, February 5, 1807, living now in Richmond. Thomas
Bolling was son of William Bolling, of Bolling Hall and Mary Randolph
of Curls Neck, Virginia. Wm. Bolling was son of Thomas Bolling and
Bettie Gay of Cobbs, Virginia.
