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ALEX BARTHLEBAUGH ALLISON
ALLISON, ALEX BARTLEBAUGH, Business Man, Los Angeles, California, was born in Nodoway County, Mo., January 22, 1872, the son of Robert Tate Allison and Lucetta Jane (Osborne) Allison. He married Lucille A. Alison at Crowley, La., February 21, 1898, and to them there was born a son, Donald Lyons Allison.
Mr. Allison spent his boyhood on a farm near Newton, Kas., also attending public school, and in 1891 was graduated from Lawrence Business College (Lawrence, Kas.). His first employment after completing school was with the Harvey County Roller Mills at Newton, then with the Atlantic & Pacific Ry. Co., at Needles, Cal. In the winter of 1894 he took a course in stenography at the Healds Business College at San Francisco, and from there went to Crowley, La., where he resided from 1895 to 1909.
During his residence in Louisiana, Mr. Allison assisted in the organization and management of several rice milling and irrigation companies; was also a director in the Crowley State Bank and served as its cashier in 1907. Having been for a number of years Secretary of the Rice Millers’ Association and the Rice Association of America, he has an extended acquaintance throughout the rice belt of Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas.
Mr. Allison moved to Los Angeles in October, 1909, and for one year was Secretary and Treasurer of the Weber-Duller Co., contractors. Since May, 1910, he has been the Assistant Secretary and office manager of the Buick Oil Co. He is also a member of the partnership of Ackland & Allison, contractors and builders, to which he devotes a part of his time.
Mr. Allison is a Blue Lodge and Royal Arch Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner and member of the Young Men’s Christian Association.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 619, International
News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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