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JAMES ALLISON. His farm consists of 200 acres of well improved land, having purchased and settled on the same in January, 1880. He came from Macoupin county, Ill., where he was raised and educated, but was born in St. Louis county, Mo., Dec. 27, 1843, being a son of Adam and Margaret Allison, both of Scotland, where they were reared, educated, and married. They emigrated to Canada in 1842, and the following year went to St. Louis county. There was a family of two children, Margaret and James. Our subject was married July 1, 1874 to Miss Lydia Victoria Morrell, a native of Macoupin county, Ill., born March 11, 1855, a daughter of John L. and Elizabeth (Beeman) Morrell. The lather is a native of Maine, born March 10, 1813. He was raised a Quaker. In 1835 he went to Illinois and taught school; in 1836 he went to Greene county, Ill,, and the following year married the mother, who was born Dec. 11, 1818. Their family consists of five children: Talitha A., D. O., Mary, Lydia Victoria, and Harriet B. S.; having lost the eldest child, James H. The above subject and wife settled on a farm in Macoupin county, Ill., and remained until they came to Missouri where they now reside. They have a family of four children: John L., born Oct. 15, 1875; Margaret E., born Dec. 19, 1876; Daisy, born May 10, 1878; and Hattie, born Aug. 31, 1879. During the late war Mr. A. served in Company C, Seventy-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and participated in all the leading battles in Tennessee and Mississippi, and was confined in Andersonville prison six months. From 1867 until 1871 he was on the Pacific slope.