John Hanna McAllister and Catharine Otto Wood

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Husband John Hanna McAllister ¹

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           Born: 1815 - Fort Hunter, Susquehanna Twp, Dauphin Co, PA 1
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           Died: Sep 1900 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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       Marriage: 1 Jul 1839 - Estherton, Dauphin Co, PA 1

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   Other Spouse: Jessie Elizabeth Brown (      -      ) 8 - Sep 1896 8

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Wife Catharine Otto Wood ¹

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           Born: 5 Aug 1816 - Reading, Berks Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1895 - St. Paul, Ramsey Co, MN 1
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         Father: Joseph Wood (      -      ) 9
         Mother: Maria Otto (      -      ) 9

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - John Hanna McAllister

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He went to school at Downingtown, Pennsylvania. He was in the lumber business and had a saw mill at Harrisburg, between what became known as State and South streets, near the river, afterwards was a partner of John B. Cox. Being in ill health, and advised to try the climate of Minnesota, he removed to that state, and investing largely in real estate amassed a large fortune. He was one of the pioneers of St. Paul, and the owner of tracts of the most valuable land in the city.

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Notes: Marriage

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For information about their descendants, click here.

1 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 77.

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 78.

9 Morton L. Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 593.