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FRANCIS JOHN ALISON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN. 125
III. Louisa Adams.'
IV. Robert Adams.»
V. Edwin Adams."
443. Louisa Adams, ^ m. Andrew J. Young; res. 1330 Spring Garden St.,
Philadelphia, Penn. Children:
I. Edwin Stanton Young."
II. James Thomas Young."
444. Oliver Adams. ^
445. Emmeline Adams. s
446. Francis John Alison *
[437] (Robert,^ Francis,^
Francis^). He was born in Jennerville, Chester county,
Penn., May 16, 1843 ; married, Sept. 6, 1877, Sophia Dallas
Dixon, who was born in Philadelphia, Penn., Dec. 28, 1853.
She was the daughter of Fitz Eugene and Catherine Chew
(Dallas) Dixon. Her father was born in Amsterdam, Sept.
resided in Farley, Bucks county, Penn., and died in
4, 1820 ;
Philadelphia, Penn., Jan. 22, 1880. He was the son of
Thomas Dixon, Jr., and his wife, Mary B. Dixon, who was
born Jan. 26, 1781, in Westminster, London, Eng. ; resided
in Boston, Mass , where he died Sept. 15, 1849. He was the
son of Thomas Dickson (or Dixon), born Nov. 6, 1739, in
Perthshire, Scotland ; resided in Amsterdam ; married Elizabeth
Mann, and died in Amsterdam, Oct. 25, 1824.
Mr. Alison graduated from the academic department of Har-
was admitted to
vard University, Cambridge, Mass., in 1865 ;
the bar of the city of Philadelphia, Penn., June 7, 1875, and
practises his profession as a lawyer at 216 South 4th St., of
that city ; resides at 327 South 18th St., Philadelphia, Penn.
CHILDREN BOKIf IN PHILADELPHIA, PENN.
447. Catherine Dallas Alison,^ b. June 11, 1878.
448. Mary Elizabeth Alison,^ b. June 17, 1880.
449. Frances Armitage Alison,*^ b. March 27, 1889.
Alison ^
450. Robert Henry [438] (Robert,-^ Francis,^ Francis^).
He was born in Jennerville, Chester county, Penn.,
June 8, 1845. He graduated in arts at Yale College, New
Haven, Conn., in 1867, and in medicine, from the University
of Pennsylvania, in 1869. He is a physician. From May, 1871,
to Oct., 1872, he was a resident physician of the Pennsylvania
Hospital in Philadelphia. From Feb., 1883, to Nov.,
1884, when he resigned, he was port physician of the port
of Philadelphia. He removed to Ardmore, Montgomery
county, Penn., Nov. 4, 1884; unmarried; resides at Ardmore,
Penn.