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126 JAMES ALISON, OF PITTSBURGH, PENN.<br />

OTHER ALLISONS OF PENNSYLVANIA.<br />

Rev. James Allison, of Pittsburgh, Penn., in a personal let-<br />

ter, Dec. 17, 1890, says: "Part of the Allison family, to<br />

which I belong, went to Mecklenburg count}^. North Carolina,<br />

nearly one hundred and fifty years ago. Many of the<br />

descendants are still there (see sketch of Allisons of North<br />

Carolina, No. 579). Another part went to Virginia, and<br />

thence passed on into Indiana (see Allisons of Indiana, No.<br />

463). One family of the part that went to North Carolina<br />

returned to Cecil county, Maryland, and afterwards removed<br />

to Washington county, Pennsylvania. One of its number<br />

(Hon. James Allison, No. 485), afterward going to Beaver<br />

county, Pennsylvania, served in the Eighteenth congress and<br />

was reelected to the Nineteenth, but declined on account of<br />

ill-health. The late Hon. John Allison, register of the United<br />

States Treasury, was his son (see sketches of Hon. James<br />

Allison, and of his son, Hon. John Allison, No. 486). The<br />

father of Hon. William B. Allison, United States senator<br />

from Iowa, removed from the Cumberland valley, Pennsylvania,<br />

to Bellafonta, Pennsylvania, and then to- the Western<br />

Reserve, Ohio, where William B. Allison was born (see<br />

sketch of Hon. William B. Allison, No. 489). One of my<br />

grandfather's brothers went from the Cumberland valley to<br />

Erie, Pennsylvania, where his descendants still live (James<br />

Allison and his descendants of Lake Pleasant, Erie county,<br />

Pennsylvania, may be of this family. See notice of them.<br />

No. 490). Another went to Butler and ; my grandfather<br />

himself removed to the south side of the Monongahela river,<br />

near this city, in 1810, and afterward to a place ten miles<br />

north of this city, where he resided until his death."<br />

460. James Allison* (James,'5 George,^ Allison i).i<br />

Rev. James Allison was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., September<br />

27, 1823 ; married, August 6, 1851, Mary Jane,<br />

daughter of Robert Anderson, who was born in Lancaster<br />

county, Penn., and who lived in Washington, Washington<br />

county, and in Sewickley, Alleghany county, Penn. Mrs.<br />

Allison was born and died in the latter place. He married,<br />

second, November 6, 1855, Caroline, daughter of Hon. Jolui<br />

M. Snowden. She was born in Pittsburgh, Penn. Mr. Allison<br />

graduated at Jefferson College, Penn., in the class of<br />

in the<br />

1845, taking the first honor. He studied theology<br />

*He is the son of .James and Elizabeth (Brickett) Allison, grandson of<br />

George and Susan (McKoberts) Allison, son of Allison, an emigrant<br />

from the north of Ireland.

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