Before her marriage Mrs. E. V. Allison was Miss Georgia Bowlby.
Her parents were Charles C. and I-ucy A. (Clark) Bowlby. Her mar-
riage to Mr. Allison was solemnized on May 25, 1887. The brothers
and sisters of Mrs. Allison were: Mary, widow of Lewis M. Morgan, of
Pontiac township; Helen, deceased, who was the wife of John Buchner,
of Oakland county; Orcelia, wife of John Whitesell, of Pontiac; and
Frank, of Pontiac. Mr. and Mrs. Allison were the parents of two chil-
dren. Tacy Irene was born September 29, i88g, and Edwinna on May
25, 1902.
Mr. Allison attends the Presbyterian church. His lodges are those
of the Masons and the Knights of Pythias, and his political preference
is for the tenets of the Republican party.
Henry M. Jackson. Probably no other couple in Pontiac have as
large an immediate relationship as Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Jackson, for
in Mr. Jackson's family there were eleven brothers and sisters, while
that of his wife's parents comprised an even dozen children. They de-
scended from residents of Great Britain, coming on Mr. Jackson's side
from England and on that of his wife from Ireland.
John and Mary (Buff) Jackson were the parents of Henry M. The
father was a native of Derbyshire and the mother of Lincolnshire, Eng-
land. The senior Jackson was born in 1806 and came to America in 1827,
when he had just attained his majority, locating in Butternut, New York.
