William Outis Allison (1849 – December 18, 1924) was the first Mayor of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey after it split from Englewood, New Jersey in 1895 and served four terms in office.[1][2]
Biography
editAllison was born in 1849 in Undercliff (now Edgewater, New Jersey).[1]
His home burned to the ground in November 1903, resulting in a loss estimated at $75,000.[3]
He died on December 18, 1924, at his apartment at 115 West 16th Street in Manhattan.[4] He was buried in Brookside Cemetery in Englewood, New Jersey. His estate was worth over $3 million (equivalent to $53.3 million in 2023).[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "Allison Park". www.njpalisades.org. Archived from the original on 2013-03-29.
- ^ Bobbie Bouton-Goldberg (1998). Englewood and Englewood Cliffs. Arcadia Publishing. p. 31. ISBN 9780752413242.
- ^ "Mayor Allison's Home Burned; Englewood's Chief Executive and Family Fled tor Life -- Loss, $75,000". The New York Times. November 8, 1903.
- ^ Staff (December 19, 1924). "William O. Allison Dies" (PDF). The New York Times.
- ^ "Allison's Will". www.njpalisades.org. Archived from the original on 2011-11-06.
External links
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Media related to William Outis Allison at Wikimedia Commons- William Outis Allison at Find a Grave
