Samuel Sloan Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 732-735

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SAMUEL SLOAN. The fine farm of this gentleman is charmingly located in 
Mount Pleasant township, Clark county, one mile north of the city of 
Clark, and, as it has the social advantages of the little city and the 
seclusion of the country, the property is one of the most desirable in 
the county. It consists of one hundred and fifty acres of land under a 
high state of cultivation and improved with good and substantial 
buildings, including a comfortable residence, 30 x 30 feet, and a barn, 
40 x 60 feet. Besides this property Mr. Sloan owns a section of land in 
Spink and Clark counties-which he leases. 

He was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, September 22, 1832, and is the 
sixth in order of birth in a family of eleven children, nine of whom 
are still living. The parents, Martin and Mary (Heminger} Sloan, are 
both now deceased, the father having died at the advanced age of 
ninety-one years, the mother at the age of eighty-six. From boyhood our 
subject's life has been devoted to agricultural pursuits and he lived 
on the home farm in Ohio until 1863, when he removed to Whiteside 
county, Illinois, residing there until coming to this state in 1883. In 
1882 he made a trip to Clark county, South Dakota, and filed a claim, 
and, as he brought his family out the following spring, he may be 
classed among the early pioneers of this region, as well as one of its 
most honored and highly esteemed citizens. 

In 1861 Mr. Sloan was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Crom, also 
a native of Ohio, and to them have been born six children, as follows: 
Martha E., now the wife of Rev. J. J. Edward; Printha E., wife of L. H. 
Fountain; Jasper E., deceased; James, who is married and assists his 
father in the operation of the home farm; Cora B., wife of D. A. 
Warner; and Ephraim 0., who is sergeant of Company G, First South 
Dakota Volunteer Infantry, and is now at Manila. 

Mr. Sloan is a stanch Democrat and strong prohibitionist and favors 
equal suffrage. Socially he has been a member of the Masonic order 
since 1863. He is one of the prominent and influential citizens of his 
community, has been a member of the township board for many years, and 
for the last four years has served as township treasurer. We find him a 
man who has put forth his best efforts to aid all causes which he 
believes to be worthy, and a generous man, controlled in his free-
handedness only by a shrewd business instinct which precludes 
extravagance. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Sloan are presented in 
connection with this sketch.