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WILLIAM ALLISON, OF ETNA, ILL. 175
945. Blanche E. Allison.*
946. Eleanor H. Allison,* deceased.
947. Artlmr Algernon Allison,' b. Philadelphia, Penn., Jan. 29, 1849;
m., Sept. 22, 1881, Ellen Toon Maslin, of London, England; b.
there June 9, 1853. Slie is dau. of Charles and Harriet (Salter)
Maslin, of Leicester, England, and later of Montreal, Canada.
He was son of John Maslin of Leicester, England. Mr. Allison
is a printer and clerk. Res. Washington, D. C. He has lived
in Philadelphia, Penn., and College Green, Md. Children b.
Washington, D. C. :
948. Albert Childs Allison,* b. July 9, 1881.
949. John Franklyn Allison,* b. Sept. 16, 1886.
ALLISONS OF ILLINOIS.
950. William Allison ^
(or John), an offshoot of the Pennsylvania
famil}^ lived in Kentucky, and married, in Grayson
county, a Miss Huntress, or Montrose (?); and after the
birth of his two sons, he went further south, joined the army,
and was in the battle of New Orleans, under General Jackson,
He was seldom heard from after that date. He had a brother,
Samuel Allison, who lived in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Allison
died about this time, and the children were brought up by
her relatives.
951. William Allison =
CHILDBEN.
(953), b. Grayson Co., Ky., in 1794; res. Coles Co.,
111., and d. there in 1854.
952. John Allison,- res. in Hardin Co., Ky., and raised a family. He
visited his brother's family about 1832, after which the families
seldom or never saw one another. He d. about 1872 ; P. C,
Horse Valley, Ky. He was a person of much inteUigence,
weighed some 20U pounds, was muscular, and a model of physical
manhood, with a ruddy complexion. He was a lover of the
military profession in old militia days. He had two sons who
were Democratic and Secessionist in their sympathies.
953. William Allison 2
[951] (William 1). He was born
in Grayson county, Ky., in 1794 ; married, Oct. 17, 1818, in
Hancock county, Ky., Eliza B. Lewis. He was an itinerant
Methodist preacher for six or eight years, and was three times
then
a delegate to the general conference at New York city ;
he studied medicine, became a physician, and practised his
profession till his death commenced his ; practice in 1832.
When Illinois was comparatively a wilderness, he moved to
Etna, Coles county, in that state, in May, 1833. She died
in 1870. He died in 1854. He was muscular, weighed some
200 pounds, and physically was a model of manhood. At
his death he had nine children living.