Sonoma-Shasta County CA Archives Biographies.....Sloper, Willard 1825 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Sloper, Willard. Was born in Meigs county, Ohio, on August 12, 1825. At eleven
years of age his parents moved to Scott county, Iowa. On April 2, 1854, he
married Mary Jones Randall, at the residence of her parents in Buchanan county,
Iowa. In 1854 he emigrated across the plains with ox-teams, being six months in
making the trip, and attended by many hardships. They first located near Shasta
City, Shasta county, California, where Mr. Sloper kept a boarding house. In
1862-3 he was engaged in mining in Nevada, and in 1864 he came to Petaluma,
where he followed contracting and building until 1876, since which time he has
been engaged in the planing-mill business. His living children are: Williard,
born April 11, 1869, and Hulda, born May 13, 1873. He has four children
deceased, and buried in Shasta county.

Additional Comments:
Petaluma Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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