Champaign County IL Archives Biographies.....Allison, William H 
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Biography of William H ALLISON, Champaign County, Illinois

From:  "History of Champaign County, Illinois with Illustrations," 1878

WILLIAM H. ALLISON

Mr. ALLISON, a citizen of Brown township, has been a resident of Champaign
county since 1869. His birth occurred in Loudon county, Virginia, February
23d, 1837. Both his maternal and paternal grandparents emigrated from
England to America and settled in Virginia. His father was Wilfred ALLISON,
and his mother's maiden name Susan H. LITTLETON. When the subject of this
sketch was a year and a half old his father emigrated with the family to
Ohio and settled in Champaign county of that State. Mr. Allison was raised
there. Attending the common schools till he was eighteen, he then for two
terms was a student at a select school at Urbana, Ohio, the county seat.
When nineteen he began teaching school in Ohio, where he taught two terms,
and then in 1857 came to De Witt county, Illinois. Returning to Ohio the
fall of the same year he taught a school there during the winter term, and
then came back to De Witt county, Illinois, and had charge of schools in
that part of the State, from the spring of 1858 to the spring of 1869. On
the 8th of December, 1861 he was married to Mary E. KARR, of De Witt
county.

He became a resident of this county in 1869, when he settled in section
thirty-five of Brown township. He has here been engaged in farming, and
also for five years has taught winter schools. For three years he has also
filled the office of magistrate, the duties of which he has discharged in a
creditable and impartial manner. He has been practicing as attorney in
justice's courts for two years, and is known as a gentleman of intelligent
judgment, and sound knowledge of ordinary legal points. He has been a
resident of the township only a few years, and is a comparatively young
man, but already holds a position of influence in the township. He has
always been a Republican in politics, and is a member of the Christian
Church.


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