Bio of SLOCUM, Albert M. (b.1869), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 144-147
ALBERT M. SLOCUM
Albert M. Slocum is the president of the wholesale grocery firm known as the
Slocum Bergren Company, which was incorporated in June, 1899. Their first
loca­tion was at Twenty-third street North, where they remained for three years,
after which they spent thirteen years on Second avenue North and Third street.
On the 1st of January, 1915, they removed to their present quarters, a
five-story and basement building of brick and concrete, which they had erected
and which in dimensions is one hundred by one hundred and forty-nine feet. The
firm conducts a general wholesale grocery business, covering Minnesota and parts
of South and North Dakota and Wisconsin. The first officers of the company were:
James Slocum, Jr., president; Charles T. Bergren, secretary; and A. M. Slocum,
treasurer. The first two are now deceased and A. M. Slocum has become the
president, with J. C. Passmore as vice president, A. F. Smith, treasurer, and
George J. Bradley, secretary.
Albert M. Slocum was born in the village of Young America, Carver county,
Minnesota, February 15, 1869, and is a son of James and Amelia M. (Sisson)
Slocum, who were natives of the state of New York and came to the west in 1856,
settling in Young America. The father was a merchant at that place and afterward
carried on merchandising at Norwood, Minnesota, where he erected the first
building after the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad had been extended
through to Glencoe. He continued in business there until 1889, when he came to
Minneapolis. He had previously organized the Bank of Norwood, of which he was
the president and he also organized and became president of the Bank of
Waterville. In fact, he became a prominent figure in financial circles,
extending his efforts into various fields. He was the organizer of the Waseca
County Bank at Janesville, Minnesota, of which he was the president and after
removing to Minneapolis in 1889 he lived practically retired until 1899, when he
organized the Slocum Bergren Company for the conduct of a wholesale grocery
business. He passed away, however, in August of the same year. He had made a
success in his business affairs throughout his life, by reason of his close
application, thoroughness and enterprise and his name was long an honored one in
commercial and financial circles. He was also a promi­nent Mason, widely known
in the craft and the sterling traits of his character com­mended him to the
confidence and high regard of all with whom he came into con­tact. His widow
long survived him, passing away in September, 1922, at the ad­vanced age of
eighty-eight years.
Their son, Albert M. Slocum, was educated in the public schools and in Hamline
University and when* his school days were over he became cashier of the Bank of
Norwood. Later he served as cashier of the Waseca County Bank at Janesville,
Minnesota, and in 1899, following his father's death, he came to Minneapolis to
take charge of the wholesale grocery business that his father had established
and became president of the company, which has been a very successful concern.
Its trade rela­tions have been constantly extended and now cover a wide
territory, while the capable management of the business at the central
headquarters has made the enterprise one of the foremost commercial interests of
Minneapolis. Mr. Slocum is also a director in the J. N. Collins Company, candy
manufacturers of this city.
In June, 1895, was celebrated the marriage of Albert M. Slocum and Miss Estelle
M. Apgar of Excelsior, Minnesota. They have one son, James A., who was graduated
from the University of Minnesota in 1922. Like his father, he is a loyal
follower of Masonic teachings and he is well known in club circles, belonging to
the Minneapolis Athletic Club, the Interlachen Club and the Minneapolis
Automobile Club. There have been no spectacular phases in his career but earnest
purpose and fidelity to duty and laudable ambition have carried him steadily
forward, making him one of the valued and substantial residents of his adopted
city and his native state.