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WILLIS E. ALLISON, who has been engaged in the slate and tin roofing business in Toronto, Ohio, since 1891, is a representative business man of the place and is at the present time a member of the city council. Mr. Allison was born in Paris, Pennsylvania, about eight miles from Toronto, Ohio, December 21, 1865, and is a son of William Everett and Elizabeth (Calhoun) Allison. In childhood he was taken by his parents to New Cumberland, W. Va., and shortly afterward to Fairview, W. Va., where his mother died when he was four years old. In 1876, he was brought by his father to Hammondsville, Ohio, and there the latter, who was a practitioner of medicine, died. Willis E. Allison, in 1883, went to East Liverpool, Ohio, and learned the trade of roofer and slater with an uncle, J.C. Allsion. He continued at his trade there until 1891, in which he established himself in his present business in Toronto. He has always been identified in a public spirited way with the interests of Toronto, and in the fall of 1909 was elected to the city council, his term beginning January 1, 1910. In 1885, Mr. Allison was married to Miss Winnie Wilma Maple, of Hammondsville, Ohio, and they have three children--Otis, who married Bessie Baxter and has a daughter, Emma Wilma; Charles W.; and Helen Maple. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and is Master of Work.  Return to Family Tales
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