[1] After immigrating to the United States, he established a successful dry goods business in Nashville.
[1] He was appointed by Governor Neill S. Brown as one of the commissioners to establish a "hospital for the insane" in Nashville, designed by architect Adolphus Heiman.
[3] Allison enslaved twelve people in Nashville and twenty in Davidson County.
[1] Their son James Hart Allison died at the Battle of Monterey of 1846 at the age of twenty-two and John Allcorn Allison died of apoplexy at the age of twenty-three.
[3] They resided at 9 Summer Place in Nashville, and one of their neighbors was Samuel Morgan.