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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOSEPH HUMPHREY SLOSS, a native of Somerville, Ala., son of the Rev. James L.
and Letitia (Campbell) Sloss, was born October 12, 1826. He was educated at
Florence this State; read law, and was admitted to the bar at the age of
eighteen years. He began the practice of law at St. Louis, from which place, at
the end of three or four years, he moved to Edwardsville, Ill. He was living in
Illinois at the outbreak of the late war, and early in 1861 came to Alabama, and
raised a company of which he became captain, and with it joined the Fourth
Alabama Cavalry Regiment. He was promoted to major in 1863. He was in active
service from first to last, and took a gallant and conspicuous part in many
hotly contested engagements.

  After the war Major Sloss resumed the practice of law at Tuscumbia, this
State, and formed a partnership with Robert B. Lindsay, afterward Governor of
Alabama. This partnership continued until Major Sloss was elected to Congress in
1871. He served in both the Forty-second and Forty-third sessions of the United
States Congress, and in 1879, was appointed United States Marshal for the
Northern District of Alabama. This office, which he held three years,
necessitated a change of residence, and he moved to Huntsville in 1879. He
resigned the marshalship in 1882 to engage in real estate business.

  Major Sloss is prominent in both the Masonic and Odd Fellows' societies. He
was married April 2, 1850, at Edwardsville, Ill., to Miss Mary L. Lusk, and has
had born to him five children: James L., deceased; Mary L., deceased; Josie L.,
deceased; Percy M., Annie C.

  Rev. James L. Sloss, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in
Northwest Ireland in 1792; came to the United States when a boy and settled in
South Carolina: and was educated at Princeton (N. J.) College. Immediately after
graduating he entered the Presbyterian ministry and located at Cahaba, Ala.  He
was there married, and soon afterward moved to Somerville. In 1830 he moved to
Florence, and there died in 1844. He was a teacher in the schools at Somerville
and Florence. He reared a family of four sons and three, daughters. His eldest,
daughter, Ann Eliza, became the wife of Col. A. D. Coffee; Mary L. married M. J.
Warren, of Tuscumbia: Titia V. married Gen. F. S. Rutherford, now of Alton, Ill.
His son, Thomas M. Sloss. died in 1873. Thomas M. was captain in the Seventh
Alabama Cavalry during the war, and afterward moved to Texas, where he was
elected Judge of the Circuit Court. Another son, Robert C. is a farmer in
Madison County, Ill. His wife, nee Letitia V. Campbell, was born at Washington,
Tenn., in 1801. Her father, David Campbell, was the first United States Judge of
Tennessee Territory.


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Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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