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278 CHARLES ALLISON, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.
1879. Charles Allison ^
[1789] (David,^ Saniuel,^ Ben-
jamin,^ John,^ JohD,2 Lawrence^). He was born in Union
township, Broome county, N. Y., three miles from Binghamton,
Feb. 21, 1827. When nine years of age he went to
Troy, Oakland county, Mich., with his parents. He was
educated in the common schools and at the academy at
Romeo, Macon county, Mich. He soon became very prominent
in business circles. For twenty-six years prior to 1880
he was extensively engaged at Oswego, N. Y., in the canal
and lake transportation business between New York, Oswego,
Cleveland, and Chicago. He had been agent, general manager,
and vice-president of the Northern Transit Co., of
Cleveland, Ohio, which had a fleet of twenty-five steamers
plying between the lake ports. He was president of the
Oswego and Bay of Quinte Navigation Co., and agent of
the Royal Mail line and several other steamboat companies.
He was largely interested in canal property, and was the
principal owner of the Northern Transit Co. canal line,
which did tlie chief part of the canal freight business between
New York and Oswego. At the time of his decease
he was the head of the firm of Allison, Stroup & Co., of
New York, N. Y., dealers in fertilizers. He died in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., July 7, 1892. He married, in 1857, Catherine E.,
daughter of Thomas Macfarlane. She was born in Cleveland,
Ohio, May 16, 1834, and resides at Brooklyn, N. Y.
CHILDREN.
1880. Charles Rollo Allison,^ b. New York, N. Y., Nov. 15, 1858. Graduated
at Cornell university in 1880; lawyer. He m., Brooklyn,
N. Y., Ella Tichenor. Child:
I. Edna Louise Allison," b. 1892.
1881. Eugene Ellsworth Allison,* b. at Birmingham, Mich., April 19, 1861.
He was a student at Harvard, and graduated at Bellevue Medical
college in 1882. He m. Elinor J. Stott; res. New York,
N. Y. No children.
1882. George Franklin Allison,' b. Birmingham, Mich., June 10, 1863.
He graduated at Union college, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1884,
and has received the degrees of A. B., of C. E., and M. A.;
he was admitted to the bar of the state of New York in 1888;
lawyer; office, 203 Broadway, N. Y. He m., 1885, Charlotte
Louise De Witt, b. at Sterling, N. Y. res. ; Brooklyn, N. Y.
Children:
I. Catherine De Witt Allison," b. June 7, 1886; d. May 25, 1887.
II. Charlotte De Witt Allison," b. Nov. 9, 1888.
III. Marion Maud Allison,-' b. Oct. 19, 1892.
1883. Mary Maud Allison,* b. Oswego, N. Y., April 10, 1865;
res. Brooklyn,
N. Y. ; m. Samuel Richardscm Bickford. Children:
I. Samuel Allison Bickford,-' b. May 15, 1889.
II. Marie Blanche Bickford," b. Jan. 20, 1891.
1884. Kate Augusta Allison,* b. Oswego, N. Y., Aug. 2, 1867;
lyn, N. Y.
1885. Jennie Blanche Allison,* b. and d. at Oswego, N. Y.
res. Brook