Westmoreland-Washington County PA Archives Biographies.....Allison, Andrew March 10, 1828

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ANDREW J. ALLISON, one who has won a competency in life by his industry and
economy, and a reliable and honorable citizen of Derry township, was born in
Washington county, Pa., March 10, 1828, and is a son of Andrew and Sarah
(Martin) Allison. His paternal grandfather, John Allison, came from Ireland when
young and settled in Washington county, where he owned three farms at the time
of his death. He reared a family of seven children, one of whom, a daughter,
youngest daughter, is now in the ninety-third year of her age. One of the sons,
Andrew Allison (father), was born in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
He was a farmer by occupation, served as a soldier in the war of 1812 and died
in 1873. He married Sarah Martin, a native of New Jersey, by whom he had eight
children: William, of Derry township; Thomas and Robert, who reside in Iowa;
Mary Ann, widow of Archie Balden, of Washington county, Pa.; Catherine, wife of
Andrew Laudeback, also of Washington county, Pa.; George, who lives in the
Ligonier Valley; James, who enlisted in Co. E, two hundred and eleventh reg. Pa.
Vols., and was killed before Petersburg; and Andrew J. Mrs. Sarah Allison died
in 1877 at ninety years of age. Her father came from New Jersey to near Lake
Erie and finally removed to Washington county, Pa. Mrs. Allison when a child was
captured by the Indians but was ransomed by her father, who met her and her
captors as he was returning from mill.

   Andrew J. Allison was brought by his father to Westmoreland county at two
years of age. He was reared near Hannastown and worked for neighboring fanners
until his marriage in 1851, when he began farming in Hempfield township, which
he followed for eighteen years, part of the time on the shares and part of the
time at ten dollars per month. In 1869 he purchased a farm near Hillside, in
Derry township, which he has improved and made very productive. By hard work and
strict economy Mr. Allison has made all that he has and deserves great credit
for the successful efforts which he has made in gaining a comfortable competency.

   He was married on August 21, 1851, to Susan Dible, daughter of John Dible,
then of Armstrong but now of Westmoreland county. Of their marriage have been
born nine children: James M., horn July 26, 1852; John D., born October 4, 1853,
resides at Chester Pa., and has three children; William O., born January 28,
1855, now residing in Henry county, Illinois; Andrew F., born December 17, l856,
and lives in Morris county, Kansas; Elizabeth Frances, born March 18, 1869,
married Joseph Barron, and died December 23, 1886 ; Joseph G., born October 19,
1861, and lives at Blairsville Intersection; Elmer E., born August 30, 1863;
Westley Grant, born March 15, 1865, resides at Derry station and is an engineer
on the P. R. R.; and David V., who was born January 8, 1868, and is unmarried.

   Andrew J. Allison served in the Army of the Potomac. He enlisted August 31,
1864, in Co. E., two hundred and eleventh reg., Pa. Vols., and was mustered out
at Alexandria, Va., June 2, 1865. He was in the battles of Fort Steadman and
Petersburg.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890

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