James H. Allison

ALLISON, BOOTS

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 5/18/2015 at 21:25:31

JAMES H. ALLISON, farmer, Sec.8; P.O. Peosta; born in Wayne Co., Ohio, July 27, 1835; came to Dubuque Co. in May 1865; he has been engaged in farming most of his life, though he taught school for some time in Ohio. In the civil was, he was a member of Co. I, 163d Regt., O.N.G.; his farm here embraces 302 acres, including ten acres in Iowa Township. His wife, nee Cornelia Boots, was a native of Richland Co., Ohio. They were married Feb. 19, 1861; have two children living- John M. and William B., and three died in infancy. Mr. Allison's father, John Allison, born in Pennsylvania in 1798, was one of the pioneers of Wayne Co., Ohio, coming there from Pennsylvania in 1820, and thence to Dubuque, Co. in 1865; the mother, Margaret Allison, died in 1861; but three of the family now remain- the father, an active, clear-headed, genial old gentleman of 82, William B., U.S. Senator and James K., the subject of this sketch.