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.
Biography
Allison was born in 1849 in Undercliff (now Edgewater, New Jersey).
His home burned to the ground in November 1903, resulting in a loss estimated at $75,000.
He died on December 18, 1924, at his apartment at 115 West 16th Street in Manhattan. He was buried in Brookside Cemetery in Englewood, New Jersey. His estate was worth over $3 million (equivalent to $53.3 million in 2023).
References
- ^ "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
Media related to William Outis Allison at Wikimedia Commons- William Outis Allison at Find a Grave
