Edward James Allison    

EDWARD JAMES ALLISON, assistant cashier of the First National Bank, at Rochester, Pa., Beaver, was born in Bridgewater, Beaver county, Feb. 8, 1852, and is a son of Thomas and Emily (Logan) Allison, natives of Pennsylvania, of English and Scotch-Irish descent. The father was a merchant. Our subject is a grandson of the late Hon. James Allison, who settled in Beaver county in 1804, and subsequently served two terms as a member of congress. His uncle, the late Hon. John Allison, served two terms in the legislature, and two in congress, and was register of the United States treasury, under General Grant, for six years. Edward J. is the only child of his parents, and has spent his life in Beaver county. Early in life he clerked in a store. In 1883 he became a clerk in the First National Bank, of Rochester, and after 1886 was assistant cashier; has resigned his position in the First National Bank of Rochester, Pa., to accept the cashiership of the First National Bank of Beaver, Pa. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, at Beaver, and a trustee.

History of Beaver County, including its early settlement; its erection into a separate county; its subsequent growth and development; sketches of its boroughs, villages and townships; portraits of some of its prominent men; biographies of many of its representative citizens; statistics, etc. by J. F. Richard; A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888. More Beaver County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file! Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com