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Frederick and Edmund Castle Allis, succeeded Lorenzo Allis in his law business and keep up the name of their father. The third son, Harold, is in the Quartermaster's Department.

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American Biographical Library The Biographical Cyclopµdia of American Women Volume II Daughters of America; or Women of the Century Allis, Annie Gibson The Chicago Historical Society page 89 ALLIS, ANNIE GIBSON (Mrs. Edmund Castle Allis), volunteer worker in the cause of animal protection, daughter of Joseph Kemp and Caroline Shepherd Tallman Gibson, was born in Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1849. John Gibson, the first of the family born in America, was of Scotch Irish extraction. T
his John Gibson served in the Revolutionary War in Anthony Wayne's battalion. His son, Robert, served as sergeant in Colonel Anthony St. Clair's battalion. Both are buried at Valley Forge. Mrs. Allis' mother, first cousin to both President Buch
anan and President Harrison, was of Quaker extraction. Lydia Kemp, her grandmother, came from a Quaker family in Maryland. This same Lydia Kemp was "read out" of the Quaker meeting for marrying outside the faith. Her sisters settled in Ohio, st
arting a Quaker Colony. They were celebrated as eloquent preachers of that faith.