The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15

the wilderness. and for him. too, boy
hood and early manhood were struggles
with poverty.
Senator Allison's father went from
Pennsylvania to Ohio, settling near
Ashland. That was in 1923. He and
his wife labored hard and were happy
when they could call n log cabin, in a
little clearing, their own. In this cabin
the future senator was born, March .,
1922
or Scotch. Irish Ancestry.
The Allisons were Scotch-Irish, that
is Scotchmen from the north of Ireland.
The Boyds, from whom came the pres
ent senator's mother. were of the same
blood. They settled in Pennsylvania In
pioneer times. They helped to make
the Keystone state. The second gen.
Grafton rendered similar service to
Ohio and the generation to which Sena-
tor Allison belongs rendered the same
brave service to still another state
Iowa.
The Allisons came originally from
Scotland. They went into the north Of
Ireland and helped to build those vast
industries which afterward aroused the
envy and the resentment OF the English
manufacturers. 1t was to crush their
industries that the English government
passed unjust laws and imposed on
them undue and uncomfortable taxes.
Because Of these burdens began the
great Scotch-lrish immigration to
America. Before the middle of the
eighteenth century thousands of fami
lies had made their way to this country
to make new homes in new land.
They were for the most part poor, but
they We're all sturdy: they Were men
and women who were willing and had
the physical strength to labor.
ScotchIrish In American.
These immigrants overran the state
Of Pennsylvania until the peaceful
k.uakels We're outnumbered by them.
j1hey invaded every section of the
south. and many of them found their
way into the New England states. They
We're scattered, in fact, throughout the
states, adding everywhere desirable
leaven to the population. What they
have been to America need not be re-
counted here. Not only did they bring
over sturdy bodies and strong hearts,
but they brought with them a religion
which seemed especially fitted to their
hard surroundings in America. They
had been covenanters and Presbyter-
ians and they remained covenanters
and Presbyterians in America: They
were of all Protestants the most sturdy.
OF the Allisons there were three
branches in America: one settled in
New Hampshire, another In North
Carolina, and the third, of which Will
lam Boyd Allison Is the most illustrious
representative at the time present, set
tied in Pennsylvania. John Allison,
who headed the Pennsylvania delega-
ton to the convention which nominated
Lincoln and who served afterward as
register of the treasury at Washing
ton, was a descendant of the southern
branch of the family, though he was
born in Pennsylvania. In her interest
ing life of James G. Blaine. Gail Hamil-
ton mentions the Allisons as living in
Chester county, Pennsylvania. She
says that the land of James Allison
and Richard" ran along the old road
and up to Andrew Galbraith's and near
the Donegal meeting house. till in the
second generation the family sold 1t all
and went west. to be represented in our
day by Senator Allison" In the same
neighborhood lived the Buchanans,
who gave a president to the United
States; the Brownlows, who became ia
nous through Parson Brownlow. and
many other families whose sons and
daughters have become noted in state
and national history. The famous Rev
DR.. Allison, schoolmaster and scholar
of the Pennsylvania before the revolu-