Biography of
James Harley Allio
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JAMES HARLEY ALLIO
Possessing much legal talent and ability, and well versed in the intricacies of
the law,
James Harley Allio has served several years as
city attorney of Greenville, and is also master of chancery for Bond county. A
native of Pennsylvania, he was born May 5, 1871, in Clarion county, which was
also the birthplace of his father, the late
Levi Allio.P.
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A son of John Allio, Levi Allio's birth occurred on the home farm December 17, 1849. Succeeding to the occupation
in which he was reared, he was engaged in tilling the soil in the Keystone state
until 1879, when he located on a farm in the eastern part of Bond county,
Illinois. In 1900 he migrated to Mississippi, and was there a resident until his
death, September 25, 1911. He was a steadfast Republican in politics and a
member of the Christian church. He married, in 1869, Aurilla
Cornish, a daughter of Henry and
Susan Cornish,
prosperous members of the farming community of Clarion county, Pennsylvania, and
to them seven children were born, of whom James Harley
is
the eldest child. The mother is still living in Mississippi.
Having laid an
excellent foundation for his future education in the rural schools of Bond
county, James Harley Allio
subsequently attended Effingham
College, in Effingham, Illinois, and Greenville College, in Greenville,
Illinois. He afterwards took a post graduate course in law at Bushnell College,
there receiving the degree of LL. B. In Mount Vernon, Illinois, in 1897, he was
admitted to the bar, and at
once
resumed his labors as a teacher, a profession which he had previously followed
in Bond county for eleven years. Opening an office at Greenville in 1903,
Mr. Allio has since been here successfully engaged in the
practice of law, at the present time, as previously mentioned, serving as city
attorney and as master in chancery. He is likewise carrying on a successful work
in the loan, real estate and abstract business, having a large patronage in
each.
In March, 1908, Mr. Allio was united in marriage with
Bertha Walker, a daughter of Cyrus and
Sarah D. Walker, of Mulberry Grove, where Mr. Walker
is a prosperous farmer and stock grower. Two children have been horn to
Mr. and Mrs. Allio, Joseph H. Allio and Grace Esther Allio.
Politically Mr.
Allio is a zealous worker in the Republican ranks, and fraternally he is
a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons; of the Court of
Honor; and of the Knights of the Maccabees. He also belongs to the American
Insurance Association. Religiously both Mr.
and Mrs. Allio
are trustworthy members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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