Biographical Sketch of Francis Allison (1893); Chester County, PA

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Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania,
comprising a historical sketch of the county", by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by
Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1893, page
617.

"FRANCIS ALLISON (sic), D. D., a fine classical scholar and noted Presbyterian
divine of Chester county, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1705, and in
1735 came to this county, where he was pastor of New London Presbyterian church
for fifteen years, and principal of New London academy from 1743 to 1752.  He
then removed to Philadelphia, where he had charge of Philadelphia academy until
1755, in which year he was appointed professor of moral philosophy in the uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, and became assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of that city.  He died November 29, 1779, and of him it is said that 'to
his zeal for the diffusion of knowledge Pennsylvania owes much of that taste
for solid learning and classical literature for which many of her principal
characters have been distinguished."