BIOGRAPHY: Willits, Allison I.
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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ALLISON I. WILLITS was born in Wayne County, Indiana, about 1819, and died April 22, 
1858, aged 47, his ancestors immigrating to America previous to the Revolution.  Mr. W. was a 
practical farmer, and followed that business in Indiana until about 1839 or 1840, when he removed to 
Mt. Vernon, Iowa, where he engaged in real estate business and in merchandising, and was among the 
first settlers of Linn County.  He, with others, laid out the town of Mt. Vernon. 

He married Elizabeth E. Julian, a sister of George W. Julian, a former member of Congress 
from Indiana, by whom he had four children, two of whom are still living.  Adelia, who married George 
Thompson, a soldier in the 1st Iowa Cavalry during the Rebellion, and who has three children, Allison, 
John and Horace; and George J, who is editor of the Linn County Pilot, published at Marion, and who 
married Ora N. Rankin, of Jones County, by whom he as one son, Charles E. Willits.