BIO: Alexander SLOAN, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 226.
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  SLOAN, ALEXANDER, son of Robert and Sarah (McCormick) Sloan, was born 
October 9, 1802, at Harrisburg, Dauphin county, Pa.  He was educated in 
the private and select schools of Harrisburg, especially under that 
eminent mathematician, James Maginnes.  He learned the trade of 
cabinet-maker with his father, and after the latter's death continued 
the business alone up to 1864, after that period for several years in 
connection with Mr. Boyd.  Mr. Sloan married, September 19, 1833, Mary, 
daughter of James and Sarah Todd, of Hanover.  She died at Harrisburg 
December 2, 1871, in her sixty-third year, and their children were:  
Robert, Sarah, who married H. Murray Graydon, Margaret A., who married 
Henry Shantz, and Isabella D.