BIO: K. A. SLOPPY, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 683 & 684.
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  K. A. SLOPPY, justice of the peace in Knox township, who also conducts a meat 
business at New Milport, is one of the enterprising and successful business men 
of this section and is held in respect and neighborly esteem by those who have 
known him from infancy, for he was born at New Millport, May 13, 1863.  His 
parents were Henry J. and Patience (Curry) Sloppy, the former of whom still 
survives and resides at New Millport.
  Henry J. Sloppy was born in Snyder county, Pa., August 26, 1837, and 
accompanied his father, Christopher Sloppy, to Clearfield county, settling in 
Pike township, where the latter followed the carpenter trade.  The family is of 
German extraction.  Henry J. Sloppy was married first to Patience Curry, a 
daughter of Richard Curry, who died and left one child, K. A.  Her burial was 
in the Lutheran cemetery near New Millport.  His second marriage was to Nora 
Bloom, a daughter of George Bloom, and they had five children:  James K., 
Hallie Almeda, Trilby S., Donald and William Byron.  After marriage, Mr. Sloppy 
located at New Millport, where he lived until after the death of his first 
wife, when he entered the Union army, becoming a member of a company in the 
149th Pa. Vol. Inf.  He was wounded in the forehead at the battle of Fort 
Steadman, but remained in the service until the close of the war, when he 
returned to New Millport.  He is a leading citizen and for thirty years has 
held public office in the township, serving ten years as a justice of the 
peace, was postmaster, also school director, and at present is township 
assessor.  In his political views he is an independent Democrat.  For some 
years he has been station agent at New Millport for the N. Y. Central R. R., 
and also transports the mail.  He attends the Lutheran church.
  K. A. Sloppy obtained his education in the schools of Knox township and 
afterward became a clerk in a general store and for two years conducted a store 
of his own and for three years was connected with the store of L. C. Lanach, at 
Clearfield.  He then returned to New Millport.  He is well established in the 
butchering business, having a large trade and delivering meat at New Millport, 
Olanta and Kerrmoor on alternate days.  In 1907 he was elected a justice of the 
peace to serve until 1912, having previously served five years as constable of 
Knox township.
  Mr. Sloppy was married July 2, 1874, to Miss Jennie Lanach, a daughter of 
Jackson and Ctaherine (Miller) Lanach, natives of Virginia, but residents of 
Clearfield.  Mr. and Mrs. Sloppy have seven children:  Orpha M., Oral J., 
Gussie Almeda, George, Guy, Kelly and Ivan.  Mr. Sloppy's two elder children 
are successful and popular teachers, Miss Orpha M. having taught for eight 
terms and now being engaged at the Clover Run school in Clearfield county.  She 
is a graduate of the Clearfield County Normal school.  Oral J., who is teaching 
the home district school in Knox township, has been engaged for five terms.  
Mr. Sloppy's second son, George, assists him in his meat business.  The family 
belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church at New Millport, of which Mr. Sloppy 
is a trustee and for three years has been superintendent of the Sunday-school.  
The family is prominent in the pleasant social life of the place.