My Genealogy Hound

WILLIAM HENRY MALLISEE, miller, post office Murrysville, was born in Pittsburgh May 29, 1852. His parents, Henry and Deliah (Deal) Mallisee, natives of Pittsburgh and Westmoreland county, respectively, now reside on a farm in Plum township, and are of German and Irish descent. W. H. Mallisee was reared in Pittsburgh, and began work at the molder’s trade when eleven years old, following that until 1873. In 1876 he purchased what was known as the Blueball mill, in Patton, which he has since operated. In 1875 he married Margaret Dible, who died the same year, and the next year he married Anna Catharine Dice, a native of Plum. Her father, Enoch, was a son of Peter Dice, whose father came from Germany; her mother, Christina, was a daughter of John Holtzer, whose father, Jacob, was a revolutionary soldier. The wife of the latter was a Miss Pore, of English descent. The Holtzers are no doubt of German ancestry. In politics Mr. Mallisee is a republican. He and Mrs. Mallisee are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is a republican.