Robert Allison Orbison and J. Estella Gregory

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Husband Robert Allison Orbison ¹

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           Born: 31 Jan 1849 1
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         Father: William Penn Orbison (1814-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Lydia Rebecca Allison (1816-1891) 2 4

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       Marriage: 14 Jun 1894 1

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Wife J. Estella Gregory ¹

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           Born: 19 Oct 1862 1
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         Father: Richmond Gregory (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Ann Lewis Snively (      -      ) 1

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Allison Orbison

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He graduated at Washington and Jefferson College in 1868; read law with his father for two years; graduated at Albany Law School in 1871; admitted to the bar of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1871; was a member of the bar of St. Paul, Minnesota, from September, 1877, to September, 1878, when he returned to Huntingdon. In July, 1880, went to Washington, D. C., having been appointed assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, who had charge of defending claims against the United States in the Court of Claims; in August, 1882, returned to Huntingdon; in January, 1887, received an appointment in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth at Harrisburg; on June 1, 1887, was appointed chief clerk in the Attorney General's office, where he remained four years, and on June 1, 1891, entered the Auditor General's office, remaining one year; later was practising law at Huntingdon with his father.
He was elected chief burgess of Huntingdon February 16, 1897; the same position having been held by his great-grandfather Benjamin Elliott, in 1796, and his grandfather, Robert Allison, in 1815.

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General Notes: Wife - J. Estella Gregory

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from Hancock, Washington Co, MD

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 19.

2 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 438.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 15.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 11.