Albert E. Allee

Born at Dansville, New York, in 1827, a son of Walter and Sybil (Sawdy) Allee. As young men he and his brother Daniel went down the St. Lawrence selling robes to clergy and choirs, the trade of their father the cloakmaker, as his daughter Elsie told it. On 3 Aug 1861 the two brothers enlisted at Momence, Kankakee County, Illinois, privates in Company D of the 42nd Illinois Infantry, and wintered with the regiment at Smithton, Missouri, after Frémont's march. In the spring Albert went on with it down the Mississippi to New Madrid and Island No. 10, and up the Tennessee to the siege of Corinth, through camps where fever took more men than the fighting; he was discharged for disability on 16 June 1862 (roster). By the late 1860s he had a homestead on the Long Prairie River in Todd County, Minnesota, where the county history lists "Albert and Dan Allee" among the settlers; in 1876 he was one of the five men elected "to take charge of the estate and property of the Methodist Episcopal church at Long Prairie" (source). He died at his daughter's at Selah, Washington, in February 1922, a member of the G.A.R.; a 1921 newspaper item, known only from a WikiTree transcription, has him making the trip from Park Rapids, Minnesota, where he had lived his last years, alone at about 94, in the day coach, since he thought a sleeper too dear (source).

Research: Patricia Hatten through Sarah Edith Allee: Allee, Sawdy, Soule, Sargent.