Joseph Allshouse, son of Henry and Marie (Kunkel) Allshouse, was born in 1795, and began life as a farmer, assisting his father in the management of the homestead near Greensburg. In 1843 he came to Wilkinsburg; where he opened a hotel known to old residents as the Seven Mile Run. This hostelry he conducted during the remainder of his life. He married Anna Marie Minuno, and their daughter Priscilla became the wife of John Kennedy. The death of Joseph Allshouse occurred in 1860.