Allison, Charles W. 1839 – 1900

ALLISON, PROTHEROE, ALLISON-PAINE

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Date: 5/22/2020 at 14:11:08

Source: Decorah Republican Mar. 1, 1900 P 2 C 5

AT REST.
As we go to press another pioneer settler is being laid away to rest.
CHARLES W. ALLISON was born in Hartsville, Steuben county, N. Y., Aug. 31st, 1839, and died at his home in this city on Monday, Feb. 26th, 1900.
Deceased came to Decorah in 1856 when a young man of seventeen years and entered the employ as a clerk to W. W. McHenry and F. B. Landers, to whom he was related by marriage, and who were then partners in a general mercantile business. Two years later, when he was scarcely twenty, he became the “Co.” in McHenry, Packard & Co. and four or five years later, by purchase of Mr. Packard’s interest, the firm became McHenry, Allison & Co., and such it remained for a score or more of years, until business reverses caused its dissolution. Subsequently he entered the employ of C. E. Dickerman and became manager of that gentleman’s interests in northern Iowa, until failing health compelled him to surrender all occupation.
The illness which caused his death (locomotor ataxia,) began creeping upon him about five years ago; but so insidious were its beginnings that neither he nor his friends comprehended how merciless a foe was assailing him. It gained full mastery of him in July last year, and be took to his bed on the 31st day of that month, to become for months a great sufferer and an object of incessant care. Surcease came at 1:45 o’clock on Monday, and the weary sufferer was at rest,
Mr. Allison, Jan. 22d, 1863, married Miss Ella Protheroe, and to them were born two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Allison-Paine and Miss Georgia Allison. His own death is the first rupture in the family; and the thirty-seven years of happy married life will be one of the pleasant recollections which memory will ever maintain. To fidelity as a husband and parent, deceased added intelligence as a citizen, activity and industry as a business man, and was an active, useful factor in the pioneer period of Decorah’s history.

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