James Harris McAllister and Amanda Catharine Lantz

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Husband James Harris McAllister ¹

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           Born: 1821 - Fort Hunter, Susquehanna Twp, Dauphin Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Carson McAllister (1790-1862/1866) 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Frances Harris Hanna (1791-1868) 2 3 5 6 7

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Wife Amanda Catharine Lantz ¹

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           Born: 10 Dec 1825 1
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Children

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1 F Frances Hanna McAllister ¹

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           Born: 1845 1
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           Died: 1886 1
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         Spouse: Stephen Hart Morley (      -      ) 8

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2 M John Carson McAllister ¹

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           Born: 1850 - Fort Hunter, Susquehanna Twp, Dauphin Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Mary M. Albert (1857-      ) 8

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3 M James Harris McAllister ¹

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           Born: 1853 1
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4 M Dickinson McAllister ¹

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           Born: 1855 - Fort Hunter, Susquehanna Twp, Dauphin Co, PA 1
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5 F Virginia McAllister ¹

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           Born: 1858 1
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           Died: 1864 1
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 M Joseph Longworth McAllister ¹

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           Born: 1860 - Lebanon, Lebanon Co, PA 1
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7 M Hiester McAllister ¹

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           Born: 1864 1
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           Died: 1866 1
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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8 F Mary Catharine McAllister ¹

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           Born: 1866 1
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General Notes: Husband - James Harris McAllister

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When quite young he went to Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, where he started in the lumber business.
"Captain of the First Company of the Eleventh Battalion of the Militia, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the First Brigade of the Sixth Division, composed of the Militia of the Counties of Dauphin, Lebanon, Berks and Schuylkill." Commission dated, August 3rd, 1842, signed by Governor David R. Porter.
He returned to Fort Hunter and farmed for his father, then went as manager to a furnace near Hollidaysburg in Blair County, called "Soap Fat," later a summer resort called Point View. He was continuously elected Justice of the Peace for twenty-five years. He was clerk in the Auditor General's Department, Harrisburg, under Auditors John A. Lemon, Wilson A. Norris, Thomas McCamant, David McMurtrie Gregg and Amos H. Mylin. During 1861-62 he was clerk to the Commissary at Cairo, Illinois, and Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri.

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General Notes: Wife - Amanda Catharine Lantz

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from Jonestown, Lebanon Co, PA

1 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 19.

2 Samuel T. Wiley & W. Scott Garner, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Gresham Publishing Co., 1892), Pg 443.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 84.

4 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 17.

5 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 53.

6 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 501.

7 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 18.

8 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 20.