Reference
Mary Catharine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister, of West Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, Pa. (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer’s Printing/Bookbinding House, 1898), 79.
32—RICHARD MCALLISTER,5, b. 1819; d. 1887. Was born at Fort Hunter, Pa. Graduated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., and went to Georgia to enter the law office of Matthew Hall McAllister, 4. While south he met and married his first wife, and came to Harrisburg to live. He finished his law studies with the Hon. Hamilton Alricks, and was admitted to the Dauphin County bar, November, 1841. Was Deputy Attorney General under Governor Shunk. During the war he was General Grant's Chief Commissary in the Department of the Mississippi. Removed to Washington, D. C., to broaden his field of practice, and "rose to a high position in his profession and social circles." He married, in 1842, Cecelia Seton Hoffman (d. 1878), of New York, and had issue:
*— 838— HARRIET SETON McALLISTER, 6.
*--- 839— WILLIAM SETON McALLISTER, «. Acting Ensign U. S. Navy, Oct. 1, 1862; resigned, Oct. 5, 1863. Served in Mississippi squadron, died and was buried at Detroit, Mich.
*— 840— RICHARD MoALLISTER, Jr., 6.
*--841— MARY FRANCES McALLISTER, 6.
He married second, Sarah Elizabeth Bagley, a widow, of Pittsburg, Pa., who died at Atlantic City, N. J., 1883, without issue.