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104 WILLIAM HENRY ALLISON, OF BOSTON, MASS.
251. Henry Allison Allen," b. Hopkinfcon, N. H., May 8, 1849. He is a
hotel manager, and now clerk in the Gault House in Chicago,
where he has resided twenty years. He is a Republican, and
an attendant of the Congregational church; single.
252. William Henry Allison ^
[134] (James,* Samuel,^
Capt. Samuel,^ Samuel i). He was born, Sept. 17, 1816, in
Dunbarton, N. H. ; married, Sept. 8, 1841, Mary Amelia,
daughter of Dea. Philip and Lavinia (Currier) Brown, of
Hopkinton, N. H., and granddaughter of Abram Brown.
She was born in Hopkinton, N. H., April 19, 1820, and
resides in 1892, in Concord, N. H. Mr. Allison was educated
at the town schools in his native town and at the
academy at Lyndon, Vt., and was a teacher in early life in
Dunbarton and Hopkinton, N. H., Lyndon, Vt., and, in 1838,
in South Carolina. In 1841 he engaged in the drug busi-
ness, in which he continued until 1865, when ill health compelled
him to it. relinquish He was tax collector from 1868
to 1875, when he engaged in the insurance business for three
years. He was a member of the South Congregational
church for more than fifty years, and was a deacon for several
years ; was superintendent of its Sunday-school from
1859 to 1863 ; residence, Concord, N. H., where he died May
15, 1887.
CHILDKEN BORN IN CONCORD, N. H.
253. Mary Lavinia Allison,^ b. Dec. 16, 1843; d. Aug. 8, 1844.
254. Philip Henry Allison," b. Nov. 3, 1846; m., Oct. 7, 1880, Sarah Jennie
Sloan. He is a book-keeper; res. Anniston, Ala, Children
:
I. Mary Abbie Allison,' b. Xov. 29, 1881 ; d. Nov. 17, 1886.
II. PhiliD Arthur Allison,' b. Oct. 10, 1883.
255. Everett Brown Allison," b. Oct. 23, 18.52; d. Dec. 7, 1857.
256. James Edward Allison," b. May 16, 18.54; m., Dec. 1, 1876, Emma
W. Curtis, daughter of George Henry and Harriet Kimball
(Lougee) Curtis. Her parents were born in East Concord,
N. H. House painter; res. Concord, N. H. Children:
I. Everett Curtis Allison,' b, July 16, 1877; d. May 13, 1884.
II. Henry Wallace Allison,' b. Oct. 23, 1878.
III. Edward Philip Allison,' b. June 30, 1881.
IV. William Bleckley Allison,' b. Aug. 20, 1882.
257. John Allison ^
[135] (James,* Samuel,^ Capt. Sam-
uel,^ Samuel 0- He was born in Dunbarton, N. H., June
26, 1818 ; married. May 10, 1845, Sarah Jane, daughter of
Eliphalet and Sarah (McQueston) Richards, of Goffstown,
N. H., where she was born July 13, 1820. She died in Bos-
ton, Mass., April 22, 1852. Mr. Allison resided in Boston,
Mass. He was connected with the firm of Claflin, Saville &
Co. His business faculties were of a high order, and he