Gen. Robert McAllister and Ellen Jane Wilson

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Husband Gen. Robert McAllister ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1 Jun 1813 - Lost Creek Valley, Juniata Co, PA 3
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           Died: 23 Feb 1891 - Belvidere, Warren Co, NJ 4
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         Father: Judge William McAlister (1774/1775-1847) 5 6
         Mother: Sarah Thompson (1783-1862) 7 8

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       Marriage: 9 Nov 1841 3

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Wife Ellen Jane Wilson ³

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            AKA: Eleanor Wilson 9
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           Died: 8 Jul 1905 - Mifflintown, Juniata Co, PA 4
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         Father: Moses Wilson (1772-1826) 3 9 10
         Mother: Elizabeth Boyd (1779/1779-      ) 3 9 10

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Children

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1 F Sarah Elizabeth McAllister ⁴

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            AKA: Sarah Ellen McAllister 2
           Born: 6 Jan 1843 - Lost Creek Valley, Juniata Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Wilson Loyd (1841-1914) 4
           Marr: 13 Aug 1863 - Belvidere, Warren Co, NJ 4

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2 F Henrietta Graham McAllister ^{2 11}

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           Born: 11 May 1845 - Lost Creek Valley, Juniata Co, PA 11
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         Spouse: Johnson Hewitt Baldwin (1832-1908) 2 11
           Marr: 30 Oct 1873 - Allentown, PA 11

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General Notes: Husband - Gen. Robert McAllister

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He moved in 1842 into the new house he had built on part of the old "Hugh's Fancy," the family homestead farm in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. He engaged in farming until he began railroad construction work in 1847, and even then supervised the farm until 1854, when he moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, thence in 1857, to Oxford, New Jersey, where he was building a tunnel three thousand feet long for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (and he was also partner in railway construction work with his brother, Thompson McAllister, in Virginia) at the outbreak of the Civil War. Always interested in military affairs, he had held while living in Pennsylvania several commissions in the militia service of that state, the last of which was from 1854 to 1859 as Brigadier-General in command of the Brady Brigade, of the uniformed militia of Pennsylvania. When the Civil War broke out he raised a company at Oxford, New Jersey, went to Trenton, was commissioned by Governor Olden a Lieutenant-Colonel in the First New Jersey Regiment and commanded it with rare distinction at First Manassas. On June 30, 1862, he was commissioned Colonel of the Eleventh New Jersey Volunteers, "thence as ranking Colonel to the command of the First Brigade, Second Division, Third Corps, to which his regiment was attached." He was one of the very few men who went through the war from its inception to its close, being present at Bull Run and Appomattox Court House, respectively, without missing any of the pitched battles (except South Mountain and Antietam) of the Army of the Potomac, to which he was attached from first to last. He was brevetted Brigadier-General for his behavior at Boydton Plankroad, Oct. 27, 1864, and Major-General for meritorious conduct throughout the war. A monument was erected to his command at Gettysburg, the Eleventh Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, where he was severely wounded, a minie ball going through the left leg and a piece of shell hitting the right foot. During the second day of the Battle in the Wilderness, in 1864, two horses were killed under him and he was hit by a fragment of a spent shell. General De Trobriand says of him: "As punctual in his religious habits as he was sincere in his belief, he had Protestant religious services regularly on Sunday at his headquarters. The most pleasant attention we could pay him on that day was to listen to the sermon of his Chaplain." (See sketch of Gen. Robert McAllister, by General John Watts De Peyster, from "Representative Men.") After the war General McAllister was general manager of the Ironton Railroad Company, and resided from 1866-1883 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Thence he returned to Belvidere, New Jersey, where he later died.

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General Notes: Wife - Ellen Jane Wilson

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from Mercersburg, Franklin Co, PA

1 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 835.

2 Mary Craig Shoemaker, Five Typical Scotch-Irish Families (Unknown Publisher: Albany, NY, 1922), Pg 80.

3 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 131.

4 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 132.

5 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 834.

6 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 14, 106.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 17.

8 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 106.

9 Mary Craig Shoemaker, Five Typical Scotch-Irish Families (Unknown Publisher: Albany, NY, 1922), Pg 79.

10 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 114.

11 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 136.