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married, no children Died 13th August, 1867 

 Loss to St. Helens The Shanks family still 

 reside at Johnstone . . 199 



VII. CHRISTIAN ALLIIUSEN. 



Died 13th January, 1890 Will proved 

 1,126,000 His father, a Schleswig-Hol- 

 steiner, lived at Kiel, a man of fortune 

 Napoleon's General, Devoust, requisitioned 

 the residence for his headquarters Christian 

 Allhusen began life in the grain trade, with 

 Koch and Sons, at Rostock When 19 came to 

 Newcastle-on Tyne (two of his brothers had 

 come before him) With Campbell and 

 Reveley, grain merchants At twenty-one 

 became a partner with his brother Christian 

 Allhusen's connection with Bolckow, as 

 general merchants, ship and insurance brokers 

 Boldman, Borries & Co., and afterwards 

 Borries, Craig & Co. Dissolution of partner- 

 ship with Bolckow Bolckow joined John 

 Vaughan, and established the firm of Bolckow, 

 Vaughan & Co. Allhusen went into the alkali 

 trade, first as Allhusen, Turner & Co., then 

 C. Allhusen & Co., and afterward C. Allhusen 

 and Sons This firm converted into the 

 Newcastle Chemical Co. Limited 1871, bad 

 times iii the alkali trade Works thoroughly 

 equipped and well-managed Jones and 

 Walsh's mechanical salt cake furnaces (1X7;")) 

 adopted Chance's sulphur recovery process 

 adopted Allhusen's policy to adopt inven- 



