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JOSEPH F. ALLISON, OF MOUNT CARROLL, ILL. 173
June 27, 1846. Mr. Allison worked till his majority upon
his father's farm. In 1859 he entered the Mount Morris
seminary of Ogle county, 111., intending to prepare himself
for the legal profession. The war, breaking out in 1861, broke
up his life plan. He entered the military service as an enlisted
man, eight days after the attack on Fort Sumter, en-
listing April 22, 1861, in Company H, Fifteenth regiment,
Illinois infantry. He was wounded in both hands at the
battle of Hatcher's River, Oct. 5, 1862, losing his left hand
and third and fourth fingers of the right, and again in the
right ankle at Champion Hills, Miss., Feb. 4, 1864. He
served six years, seven months, and seven days, and was honorably
discharged as a first lieutenant, Jan. 1, 1868. He was an
officer of the Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina, after the
war. He has held the office of special examiner of the
United States pension office. He has been circuit clerk and
recorder, and county clerk of Carroll county, 111., for thirteen
years, and was first assistant clerk of the House of Representatives
of Illinois for the twenty-eighth and thirty-third Gen-
eral Assembly. He resided at Toronto, Canada, till April,
1840, then in Milledgeville, Carroll county, 111., till 1868 ;
since 1868, in Mount Carroll, Carroll county, 111. He receives
a pension of $30 per month, and is a Republican, having cast
his first vote for Abraham Lincoln.
CHILDREN BORX IX MOUNT CARKOLL, CARROLL COUNTY, ILL.
910. Frances Cora Allison/ b. June 15, 1870; res. Mount Carroll, 111.
Student.
911. Waite Fisher Allison,^ b. Aug. 10, 1872; res. Mount Carroll, 111.
Student.
912. Martha Allison,^ b. Feb. 27, 1882, at home.
913. Joseph Foster Allison,^ b. April 21, 1884, at home.
Allison *
914. Charles Wesley [902] (Fisher,^ John,2
Joseph 1). He was born in Milledgeville, 111., March 26,
1850. Married, Oct. 19, 1875, Mary Emma Horning, born
Dec. 13, 1855, in Collegeville, Montgomery county, Penn.;
lived at Malvern, Whitesides county, 111. She was daughter
of Samuel Eisenburg, and Elizabeth (Grater) Horning, and
grand-daughter of Henry and Hannah (Eisenburg) Horning
of Montgomery county, Penn. Mr. Allison has lived in
Mount Carroll, 111., and Wymore, Nebraska. He is a teacher
and farmer; resides Milledgeville, 111.