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ROLAND HILL ALLISON, OF CLINTON, MO. 119
of Rev. Martin E. and Clarissa (Toiisley) Cook, and granddaughter
of Josiah Cook of Windham, Vt. Her family lived
in Massachusetts, Bellville, N. Y., Dayton, O., and her father
died in Streetsboro', O., Oct. 4, 1841. She was born at Dayton,
O., Dec. 27, 1837. Mr. Allison left Ohio in 1854, and
lived in Jennings Co., Ind., with his brother, Clinton J., until
1856; removed to St. Louis, Mo., living there until '59; then
was in trade in Ottawa, 111., until Aug., 1861, when he enlisted
in Company B., Fifty-third regiment, Illinois volunteers
; was promoted to first lieutenant, then to captain, and
two years later was commissioned major of the same regiment,
and resigned in 1865. He participated in the siege of
Corinth, Miss., of Vicksburg and of Atlanta, and was in
Sherman's March to the Sea, ending at Savannah, Ga., in
Dec, 1864. He is a Republican in politics, is engaged in the
sale of machinery and agricultural implements, and he and
his family are Baptists in their religious faith ; res. Clinton,
Henry Co., Mo. No children.
398. Alfred Bixby Quinton^ [362] (Royal Bellows Quintou,^
Samuel Quinton,^ Margaret Allison,^ Capt. Samuel,^
Samuel 1). He v/as born in Denmark, Iowa, Jan. 26, 1865;
married, Jan. 25, 1882, Georgie Helen, daughter of George
A. and Helen M. (Crane) Hoffman, of Topeka. Her father
was born in Lyons, N. Y., in 1830, a son of Charles Ogden
Hoffman, who died in New York city, in 1885, and grandson
of Ogden Hoffman. She was born in Rochester, N. Y.,
Sept. 9, 1867. Mr. Quinton graduated at Michigan Uni-
versity, at Ann Arbor, in 1876. He then located in Topeka,
Kan., and has been in the active practice of his profession as
an attorney. He has been county judge for four years;
resides at Topeka, Kan.
CHILDREN BORN IN TOPEKA, KAN.
399. Helen Hoffman Qninton,^ b. April 5, 1882.
400. Georgie Fay Quinton,' b. Oct. 24, 1885.
401. Eugenie Quinton,' b. Jan. 1.5, 1888.
402. Alfred Bixby Quinton, Jr.,' b. Aug. 17, 1890.
ALLISONS, OR ELLISONS, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
408. Mrs. Mary Allison (or probably Ellison), of Nottingham,
N. H., died Jan. 17, 1869, in the 109th year of her age.
She was born in Lee, N. H., May 20, 1750. She, at her
death, had eight daughters living. The youngest was sixty
years of age, three of them were over eighty years of age.