Display Patriot - P-102926 - Richard ALLISON

Richard ALLISON

SAR Patriot #: P-102926

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State of Service: PA      Qualifying Service: Surgeon

Birth: 1757 Goshen / Orange / NY
Death: 22 Mar 1816 / Clermont / OH

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Surgeon's Mate. 5th PA, 1778
  2. Surgeon of the Legion, 1782
  3. 1st PA, Jan 1783

Additional References:

Duncan, Louis C. Medical Men in the American Revolution, 1775–1783. Carlisle Barracks, Pa.: Medical Field Service School, 1931, pg 380


Spouse: Rebecca Strong
Children:
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Burial:
Wesleyan (aka Cummingsville) Cemetery (C-0371706)
Location:
Cincinnati / Hamilton / OH / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
44017
Grave Plot #:
Sec D Lot 59
Grave GPS Coordinates:
39.159210 / -84.547010
Find A Grave Memorial #:
16125185
Marker Type:
Memorial Plaque
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
18 Oct 2015

Comments:

photos used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR



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Author: Michael John Blum

Richard Allison was born in 1757, near Goshen, Orange County, New York.

He entered the army as a surgeon in 1777. In 1788 he was made Surgeon General of Northwest under Harmer, St. Clair, and Wayne. During the American Revolutionary War, he served as a surgeon's mate in the Pennsylvania Line of the Continental Army. He was the senior American military physician in the Northwest Indian War and became the surgeon general of General Anthony Wayne's Legion when those troops were organized and defeated the Native American troops at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

He married Rebecca Strong, born in 1778 near Hartford, Connecticut, and died June 1, 1828, daughter of Colonel David Strong. After living for a few years on his farm on the east fork of the Little Miami River, he returned to the city in 1805 and continued to practice medicine until his death. Daniel Drake called him the "father of our local profession," and wrote of him that "though not profound in science, he was sagacious, unassuming, amiable and kind."

He died in Clermont County, Ohio in 1816 after a brief illness, and was buried at Wesleyan Cemetery, Colerain Avenue, and Hoffner Street.

 

Sources:

  1. Hamilton County Recorder’s Office. Veterans’ Graves Registration Cards. Cards are located at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
  2. Works Progress Administration (WPA) Revolutionary War Veteran burial records in Ohio; Cincinnati-Hamilton County Public Library, History/Genealogy department.
  3. Revolutionary War Soldiers, Buried in Hamilton County, Ohio”; Little Miami Publ. Co. Milford, Ohio, 2010. By DAR, Cincinnati Chapter.
  4. Listed as Surgeon General in the 1959 SAR Roster of Rev. soldiers.

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