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JOSEPH W. ALLISON, OF MEMPHIS, TENN. 169<br />

Nashville by the United. States troops he returned to his home,<br />

and soon secured a clerkship in a hardware store in Nashville,<br />

v^hich he retained till the close of the war. He then returned<br />

to the university at Lexington, Va,, graduated after a four<br />

years course, and then united himself for the next nine years<br />

at Memphis, Tenn., in the wholesale hardware business with<br />

his brothers, who were established there. He then engaged<br />

in the cotton-seed oil manufacture at Jackson, Tenn., and in<br />

1886 sold his business to the American Cotton Oil Trust,<br />

and returned to Memphis to assume control of the company's<br />

oil business in that locality, a position he still holds. Resi-<br />

dence, Memphis, Tenn. He married Mary Amanda, daughter<br />

of Alexander James Porter. She was born in Nashville,<br />

Tenn., Jan. 14, 1851, and is still living.<br />

CHILDREN.<br />

875. Eebekah Allison/ b. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 27, 1873; res. Memphis,<br />

Tenn.<br />

876. Alexander Porter Allison,^ b. Memphis, Tenn., July 13, 1S76. At<br />

home.<br />

877. Andrew Allison," b. Jackson, Tenn., April 23, 1S70. At home.<br />

878. Joseph Webster Allison,'^ Jr., b. Memphis, Tenn., March 20, 1890.<br />

At home.

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