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106 ELIZABETH HALL ALLISON, OF MANCHESTER, N. H.
he has been since that date. He was of the firm of Claflin»
Allison & Co., wholesale grocers ; sold in 1886, and has been
in the employ of Wiuslow, Rand & Watson, teas and coffees^
197 and 199 State St. They reside in Winchester, Mass.
CHILDKEN.
263. Frank Allison,6 b. Lowell, Mass., May 10, 1853; d. Aug. 20, 18.54.
264. Walter Irving Allison," b. Cambridge, Mass., .June 20, 1860; clerk
in the New York Dispatch Co., Summer St., Boston, Mass.;
res. Winchester, Mass. ; single ; Kepublican.
26.5. Carrie Allison'' b. Boston, Mass., April 16, 1862; d. Aug. 20, 1864.
266. Stephen Tozier Allison," b. Boston, Mass., April 19, 1868; single;
Congregationalist, and Republican; res. Winchester, Mass.
267. Fred Bird Allison," b. Cambridge, Mass., May 12, 1869; d. July 26,
1888. He was a young man of rare qualities of mind and heart.
268. Herbert Allison," b. Cambridge, Mass., Jan., 1872; d. July, 1872.
269a. Elizabeth Hall Allison ^
[139] (Jaraes,^ Samuel,*
Capt. Samuel,^ Samuel^). She was born in Dunbarton,
N. H., March 24, 1825. She was the first graduate of the
high school in the city of Manchester, N. H., and received
the first diploma. This was in December, 1848. She always
was an energetic teacher, and followed her profession with
marked success for a long period. She taught in Concord,
N. H., for three years ; in the Pinkerton academy .at Derry,
N. H., for three years ; in the Ohio Female college. College
Hill, Hamilton Co., Ohio, for thirteen years, the last three
years of which she was the principal. In the Bennet Seminary
for young ladies in Minneapolis, Minn., she was an
instructor for three years, leaving there in 1874. On Sept.
30, 1874. she married Rev. Cyrus Washington Wallace, D.D.,
of Manchester, N. H.. who was of the same Scotch race as
herself, and whose Scotch ancestors had found a temporary
hom.e and abiding-place in Ireland before the settlement in
Londonderry. He was a descendant of John Wallace, and
his wife, Annis Barnett, who came in 1719 or 1720 from
the county of Antrim, Ireland, and they were said to be the
first couple married in Londonderry, N. H., May 18, 1721.
He died in Manchester, N. H., Oct. 21, 1889. He was pastor
of the First Congregational church for thirty-four years and
preached his first and last sermon in that church edifice,
just forty years apart, the first being in 1840, the last in 1880.
269. George Augustus Allison^ [145] (James,^ Samuel,'^
Capt. Samuel,''^ SamueP). He was born in Warner, N. IL,
Sept. 14, 1843; married, Nov. 12, 1864, Julia L. Powers,
daughter of Alanson Powers, of Berlin Heiglits, Erie County,
O. She was born at Freedom, Portage County, O., June 17,