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280 BREWSTER J. ALLISON, OF STONY POINT, N. Y.
Elizabeth (Blauvelt) Jordan. Mr. Allison lived at Closter,
N. J., and since 1845 in Hackeusack township, now Englewood
township, N. J.
CHILDREN.
1S93. John Washington Allison.'
1894. David Jordan Allison.'
1895. William Cutis Allison' (1923), b. March 30, 1849; res. Englewood,
N. J.
1S96. Mary Jane Allison,' res. Jersey City, N. J.
1897. Brewster Jonas Allison '
[1831] (George Suffern,^
Peter,^ Joseph,^ John,^ John,^ Lawrence ^). He was born in
Haverstraw (in the portion now Stony Point), Rockland
county, N. Y., July 5, 1821. After attending the district
school of his neighborhood, he was sent to an institution at
Peekskill, N. Y., where he obtained a more extended education.
The first part of his business life was spent in a store
with his father, and he afterward engaged with him in brickmaking,
which he continued two years. The yards were then
leased to other parties, and he engaged in land surveying.
He held the office of town superintendent of schools from
1848 to 1853, when the office was abolished. He was a
member of the assembly in 1850, and served .on the committee
on roads and bridges and towns and cities. The rival
candidate for the position was Edward Pye. Mr. Allison
was elected on a " free soil " ticket and naturally drifted into
the Republican party, at its formation, to which he is still
attached. In 1853 he again entered into the manufacture of
brick, in which he is still engaged.
Mr. Allison was connected with the First Presbyterian
church of Haverstraw, with which he united in 1854, and was
one of its elders until August, 1892, when he united with the
Presbyterian church of Stony Point, and was elected to the
same position. He is a pronounced temperance man, and
has been a zealous worker in that cause. He lives at the
village of Stony Point, N. Y., in the house where lived his
father, Hon. George S. Allison. He married, Nov. 19, 1856,
Anna Elizabeth, daugliter of William C. Housman, of
Haverstraw. She died in Haverstraw, April 27, 1862. He
married, second. May 2, 1868, Anna Given, daughter of Nelson
and Mary C. (Denniston) Andrus, of Haverstraw. She
was born Dec. 3, 1848 ; died Aug. 2, 1889, and is buried in
the Allison plot in Mount Repose cemetery, in Haverstraw.
He resides in Stony Point, Rockland county, N. Y.