Solano County CA Archives Biographies.....Allison, Josiah
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JOSIAH ALLISON, a fruit-raiser of Vaca Valley, has been a resident of California
since 1854, when he brought his family here. He first crossed the plains to
California in 1850. His parents were Charles and Hester (Stull) Allison. His
father, a native of Pennsylvania, came with his father to Ohio, landing at
Marietta November 11, 1789, as one of the settlers under the auspices of the
Ohio Company, each member of which, was granted 100 acres of Government land. He
brought his family there in a flat-boat from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and
remained the most of his life in Ohio, and spent the last two years in Iowa,
dying in 1847.

  The family and other settlers were obliged to occupy the part called the
Campus Martins on the Ohio River, near its confluence with the Muskingum River,
owing to a war with the Indians. Mr. Allison's grandfather, being a good shot,
was one of those who supplied the settlers with game during that time. During
this war, 1791-'95, the settlers passed years of anxiety and danger within and
under the protection of Campus Martins and "Pocketed Point." An aunt of Mr.
Allison, Mrs. Nancy Allison Frost, now in her 106th year, still lives near
Marietta, in the enjoyment of good health. In 1795 the family moved up the
Muskingum River, almost opposite to where Lovell now stands. Here his father was
brought up, and he lived in Ohio, etc., as before stated. He was a soldier in
the war of 1812.

  Mr. Allison, the subject of this notice, was brought up in Washington County,
Ohio. In his twenty-fourth year he removed with his family to southeastern Iowa,
settling in Van Buren County, in 1840, where he lived until 1854 upon a farm he
had entered. In 1850 he crossed the plains for this State, coming by way of Salt
Lake and entering California near Placerville. He was on the route from May to
July. The first year he engaged in mining; he then returned to Iowa by the
Panama route, and remained there on his farm until 1854; then he sold it out and
brought a drove of cattle overland to California, and also his family along with
him. Locating near Vacaville, he bought a tract and engaged in farming and the
rearing of livestock. In 1855 he also planted 100 peach-trees, paying $40 for a
handful of twigs, apple and peach, with which to bud his trees; thus he was one
of the earliest fruit-growers of Solano County. He continued interested in these
pursuits until 1886, when, having 100 acres in fruit, he sold out.

  Mr. Allison was married in 1840, to Miss Julia Baldwin, a native of Washington
County, Ohio, and a daughter of David and Lavinia (Wheeler) Baldwin, natives of
Connecticut, who settled in Ohio early in the present century. Mr. and Mrs.
Allison have six children living: David E., now in the commission business in
San Francisco; Charles H., in business in Elmira; Harriet J., now the wife of
Thomas Mansfield, of Mount Tabor, Oregon; Orestes H., in business at Elmira;
Josiah E., a commission merchant in San Francisco; Hester L., now the wife of
Luther J. Harbison, of Vacaville. Eliza M. married Zebulon B. Donaldson, and
died in 1873, leaving one daughter.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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