Husband Hon. Jonathan Allison 1 2 3 4
Born: 3 Feb 1828 - Chartiers Twp, Washington Co, PA 5
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Died: 17 Dec 1908 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 3
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Father: Thomas Allison (1780-1849) 4 6 7
Mother: Mary Johnston (1798-1884) 8
Marriage: 7 Apr 1857 9
Wife Margaret A. Gabby 10
Born: 1837 - near Washington, Washington Co, PA
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Died: Aft 1925
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Father: William Gabby (1803-1883) 11 12
Mother: Margaret McClelland (Abt 1810-Aft 1893) 11
Children
1 F Mary Allison 9
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Died: when four years old
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 F Margaret Gabby "Maggie" Allison 2 13
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Died: 6 Sep 1886 - Canonsburg, Washington Co, PA 2 14
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Spouse: William Alexander Dickson (1860- ) 15 16
Marr: 24 Sep 1885 2 14
3 M Albert J. Allison 1 4 9
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Spouse: Etta Tucker ( - ) 4
4 M Thomas Grant Allison 1 4 9
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Died: 1905 4
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5 M Edward E. Allison 1 9
AKA: Edwin E. Allison 4
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Died: 1919 4
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Status: Twin
Spouse: Blanche Myers ( - ) 4
6 M William E. Allison 1 9
Born: Abt 1871
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Died: 10 Feb 1881 1
Cause of Death: Drowning
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Status: Twin
Spouse: Did Not Marry
7 M John B. Allison 1 4 9
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Died: 1922 4
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Spouse: Anna Rogers ( - ) 4
8 M Ralph Martin Allison 1 4 9
Born: 10 Jan 1877 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 4
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Died: 20 Feb 1923 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 4
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9 F Jane "Jennie" Allison 1 4 9
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Spouse: Oliver Phillips Brown (1878- ) 17
Marr: 24 Feb 1910 4
General Notes: Husband - Hon. Jonathan Allison
He received his rudimentary education at the common schools of his district, and at the age of seventeen years entered Jefferson College, remaining two years, when, owing to the death of a brother, he returned home and engaged in farming, which for the most part he followed through life. After his marriage he bought of William Hopkins a farm of 148 acres, situated about one mile from the place of his birth, and there remained eight years, when he purchased a part of his grandfather's old farm, from the Andrew Allison estate. Here it was that a hundred years ago, while excavating the land for drainage, his grandfather Allison discovered the first coal found in Washington County, some of which he dug up for blacksmith's use, and sold at 25 cents per bushel, after hauling it many miles; but not till long afterward was it used for house fuel. Andrew Allison had mined coal for some time, not as a regular business, however; but when in 1872 the Chartiers Valley Railroad was built, Jonathan Allison opened the mine on a large scale, developing it to its fullest working capacity, and sending the product to the lake ports, even as far as Chicago, besides supplying the borough of Washington and other places with the bituminous mineral. From 1873 to 1891 he employed about fifty men at the mine, and shipped over a million bushels per annum; but in 1891 he sold the concern out to J. V. H. Cook & Sons, of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, and retired from the coal interests. In 1887 he removed to the "Old Acheson Homestead," in Washington and resided there.
He and his wife were consistent members of the First Presbyterian Church, in which he was a deacon. Politically he was a Whig, up to 1856, but thereafter was a stanch Republican. For twelve years he served as school director, being first elected the year he cast his first ballot; was a justice of the peace from 1872 to 1873, but resigned in order to accept the position of representative to the State Legislature to which he had been elected in the fall of 1872, and in which he served for two terms. Through some condition of politics, Hon. Mr. Allison was the only representative from Washington County in the State Legislature at that time, thereafter, however, there were two. For a couple of years he was a burgess of Washington borough, and he was one of the original stockholders, in 1886, of the Citizens' National Bank, and became one of its directors.
He and his wife had eleven children; three died in infancy.