Bio: Dr. Hartwell Alison, DeSoto & Caddo Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890

Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker
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Dr. Hartwell Alison

The profession of the physician is one which operates in time of need in
arresting and alleviating the most acute pains and ailments to which the human
body is heir, and therefore deserves the most appreciative consideration on
the part of the public. In this profession the gratitude of hundreds is due
to the skill and talent of Dr. Alison, who has been an active practicing
physician of Bayou La Chute since 1873. He was born in Dallas County, Ala.,
in 1847, and is a son of Dr. Lockwood and A. J. (Hartwell) Alison, who were
born in South Carolina in 1807 and 1826, respectively, their marriage taking 
place in Alabama about the year 1845. They came to De Soto Parish, La., 
in 1850, and are still living there, the father having been a practicing 
physician the last sixty-four years of his life. He is a graduate of 
the medical college of South Carolina, and inherits English blood of his 
father, Jacob Alison, who died in South Carolina. The mother's father, 
Jesse Hartwell D. D., was born in Massachusetts in 1795, and died in 
Mount Lebanon, La., in 1859, a minister of the Missionary Baptist 
Church, and for many years a teacher, being president of Mount Lebanon 
University at the time of his death. His wife passed from life about 
1880. Dr. L. Alison was married twice, his second wife being the mother 
of the subject of this sketch, he being the eldest of their nine 
children. He was educated in DeSoto Parish and Mount Lebanon, and 
graduated from the medical department of the University of Louisville in 
1872, settling almost immediately afterward at Marshall, Tex., where he 
remained one year, then came to Bayou La Chute, which has been his home 
ever since, his practice being very extensive. He served one year 
during the latter part of the late Civil War, being a member of Company 
C, Eighth Louisiana Cavalry, and was in the engagement at Mansfield. He 
was married in 1868 to Miss E. G., a daughter of D. R. W. and M. E. S. 
McIver, who were born in South Carolina. From that State they moved to 
Alabama, and in 1855 to De Soto Parish, La., where the father passed to 
his long home in 1863, and the mother in 1880. Mr. McIver was a Baptist 
minister for many years, and was a worthy and able divine. Mrs. Alison 
was born in Alabama, and she has borne the Doctor six children--one son 
and five daughters. The Doctor is one of the leading physicians of this 
section of the country, and he and his wife are honored members of the 
Missionary Baptist Church.