Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Slosson, Edwin C 1843 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Edwin C. Slosson, manufacturer, Verona, is a son of Rufus K. Slosson, M. D., 
and Hannah G. (Brown) Slosson, and was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., February 
25, 1843. In the spring of 1854, his parents came to Illinois, and settled in 
Vienna Township, Grundy County, where our subject received the elements of an 
English education. He enlisted August 22, 1862, in Company C, Seventy-sixth 
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he served during the war and was 
discharged in Chicago in August, 1865. During his term of service he 
participated in the siege of Vicksburg, Jackson; siege of Fort Blakely, where 
he was shot through both thighs. April 8, 1872, he married Cornelia D. 
Harford, daughter of Aaron and Frances Harford, of Vienna Township, born 
August 9, 1848. They then went to California where he engaged in the lumber 
trade for five years, then returned to Grundy County, and has since been in 
Verona, engaged in manufacturing the "Slosson Cultivator." He is associated in 
business with his brother, Eugene Slosson. Mr. and Mrs. Slosson have one child 
now living, and have lost two - Vallie, born in Oregon February 2, 1873, died 
in Grundy County August 25, 1880; Fannie May, born in Oregon August 11, 1875, 
died in Grundy County September 1, 1880, and Ellen, born in Grundy County, 
August 14, 1881. He is a Republican.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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