Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Richard McAllister and Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bagley




Husband Richard McAllister 1

           Born: 1819 - Fort Hunter, Susquehanna Twp, Dauphin Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 1887 2
         Buried: 


         Father: John Carson McAllister (1790-1862/1866) 3 4 5 6
         Mother: Frances Harris Hanna (1791-1868) 3 4 6 7 8


       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Cecelia Seton Hoffman (      -1878) 9 - 1842 9



Wife Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bagley 9

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 1883 - Atlantic City, NJ 9
         Buried: 


Children

• They had no children.


General Notes: Husband - Richard McAllister


He graduated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and went to Georgia to enter the law office of Matthew Hall McAllister. While south he met and married his first wife, and came to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to live. He finished his law studies with the Hon. Hamilton Alricks, and was admitted to the Dauphin County bar, November, 1841. He was Deputy Attorney General under Governor Shunk. During the Civil War he was General Grant's Chief Commissary in the Department of the Mississippi. He removed to Washington, D. C., to broaden his field of practice, and "rose to a high position in his profession and social circles."


General Notes: Wife - Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bagley

from Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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Sources


1 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 19, 79.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 79.


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