BIO:  John J. VANDERSLOOT, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 52

JOHN J. VANDERSLOOT, a stanch business man of York, is a native of the county, 
and was born November 24, 1836.  His father, Rev. Frederick W. Vandersloot, was 
a minister of the Reformed Church, and for over fifty years a faithful and 
conscientious Christian worker in York County.  Our subject received a good 
education, having had the advantages of the schools of York and the York County 
Academy.  He began his mercantile career when sixteen years of age in York, 
where he was employed for seven years.  He was next employed by C. E. Morgan & 
Company, of Philadelphia, where he remained until 1861, when he returned to York 
and began business for himself.  He has, by energy and application, established 
a leading and extended trade in dry goods, notions, queensware, etc., and is a 
citizen of the progressive type.  Mr. Vandersloot was married October 12, 1869, 
to Miss Leanora V. Jaeger, of Philadelphia.  They have four children:  Catherine 
A., Mary A., Sarah C. and William J.  The family are members of the Reformed 
Church, in which Mr. Vandersloot has taken a leading part, having been a deacon 
and elder, and a teacher in the Sabbath-school for over twenty years.