Polk County, Missouri Biographies - Joseph R. ALLISON
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri 1889, published by Goodspeed, page 620 
Polk County Biography Section

   Joseph R. Allison, one of the leading citizens of Polk County, 
residing in Jefferson Township, was born in Todd County, Ky.,
February 15, 1834, and is a son of Abraham and Sarah (Wagster)
Allison, who were born in Virginia and North Carolina, and died
in Christian County, Ky., in 1863, when about sixty-eight, and
in 1868, at the age of seventy, respectively.  They were married
in West Tennessee, whither they had both gone with their parents
in childhood, and afterward located in Todd County, Ky., and 
later in Christian County.  The father was a blacksmith and 
farmer, and as such was very successful. He was a Democrat
politically, and he and wife were members of the Missionary
Baptist Church.  Joseph R. Allison is one of four surviving
members of a family of ten children born to his parents, and 
when a young man learned the cabinet-maker's trade, and also 
carpentering. He began working for himself in Fairview, Ky.,
and formed a partnership with Fidel Eggel, which lasted eighteen
months, and in April, 1857, moved to Missouri, and located in
Polk County, on the farm on which he is now living, and after 
working at the carpenter's trade for some time, turned his
attention to farming and stock-raising exclusively.  When 
starting out in life for himself, it was without means; but, 
with a good constitution and a determination to succeed, he has
been more than ordinarily successful.  His first purchase of land
was forty acres, and he now owns 362 acres located on Twenty-five
Mile Prairie.  In 1860 he was elected justice of the peace of
Jefferson Township, and served twelve years, with the exception
of the time he was in the State Militia, and in his political 
views has always been a Republican. January 29, 1857, he was
married to Miss Tempy Mariam Johnson, a daughter of James Johnson.
She was born in Muhlenberg County, Ky., April 10, 1838, and is the
mother of two children: James W. A., practicing physician at
Rondo, Mo.; and John M., who is also a physician and practices
at Lawrencebury, Mo.; both being graduates of the American 
Medical College, of St. Louis.  Mr. and Mrs. Allison are members
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and he is clerk and elder 
in the same.  He belongs to the I.O.O.F., and for about ten years
held the position of postmaster at Rondo.

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