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Allerton, Samuel Waters

packer, was born May 26, 1828, near South Amenia, N. Y. In 1873 Mr. Allerton began packing meats, and carried on the business as The Allerton Packing Co., of which he is president. He now has forty thousand acres of farm land in Illinois, Ohio, and in Iowa-upon which live stock is raised and fattened. He is one of the two survivors of the organizers of the First National bank of Chicago; and a large owner in The Chicago City Railway; The Arcade File Works of Anderson, Ind., and president of The Allerton bank of Allerton, Ill.