The age-herald., 1902-02-02
Allison Unique
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Senator William B. Allison of Iowa will be elected this week for his sixth con- secutive term as United States Sena- tor-an honor never before conferred upon any American. The Legislature decided to return him by a unanimous vote al- though there are some twenty Democrat lc members. But these agreed with the Republicans to emphasize the unusual character of the noteworthy occasion by casting their votes with the majority.
 Senator Allisons thirty consecutive years in the higher branch of our national government will expire March f. 1903. All though he is 73 years of age he is every whit as young as he was twenty years ago. In the annals of American politics there are few records like Allison s-this apart from the fact of long term of ser Rice.
 Commencing political life as one of the assistant secretaries of the convention which first nominated Abraham Lincoln for President, serving eight years in the House of Representatives during try tng time in the nations history, and re- eeiving at the hands of the people of Iowa six terms in the United States Sen ste, MT. Allison is rightly considered the Foremost man of Iowa. If the Iowa peo- pie had had their way he would long ago have had placed upon him the more ar duous duties of Chief Magistrate of the nation.
 Senator Allison's beginnings were amid humble surroundings. lie was cradled in the wilderness. and for him boyhood and early manhood were struggles with pow erty. Senator Alison's father went from Pennsylvania to Ohio, settling near Ash land, in 1923 He and his wife labored hard and were happy when they could call log cabin their own. In this cabin the future Senator was born, March ?, 1929.
 William B. Allison was sent to the dis trict school house in the woods, but as soon as he was old enough he was com pelled to work in the fields during the summer months. However he made re- markable progress. He was especially apt in spelling and mathematics. He was Fortunate fin having good teacher David Kimberly-who afterward became a Bishop in the Methodist church.
 The boy, having made remarkable pro- gress, his father sent him at the age of / 16 to an academy at Wooster, O. He re- mained in that school two years, after which he was sent to Allegheny College at Meadville. Pa, through the influence or some acQualntanceS he had made al Wooster. While at Allegheny College young Allison and Cyrus K. Holiday still living in Topeka. Kau., kept theil own house and cooked their own meals and their years schooling in consequence cost them little. Allison remained in the Meadville school one year. Then he taught school for one winter an experi- ence which proved to be very helpful tc him. He went next to Hudson, O.. where he attended the Western Reserve College remaining there likewise only one year That ended his schooling.
 Having completed his education the young man turned his attention to the law. His father had filled. the office of county squire, hearing and deciding bmall cases. At these hearings the boy had often been an interested listener These experiences led him to think of the law as a profession. He returned to Wooster and in the office of Hemphill X Turner began to read Blacksto one At the end of two years he was admitted to the bar and entered on the practice off his profession at Ashland. O.
 In 1854, in spite of the fact that he was poor and had apparently small pros- poets in life, he married Miss Anna Car Ger. the daughter of Daniel Carter. a man of prominence in that day. It was this extra responsibility that soon there after turned his thoughts westward. first 10 Chicago, which was then a struggling town of less than 500OO people, and then to Dubuque, la.
 In 1859 he attended the first convention In Iowa as delegate and helped nomi-