 1849 - 1929 (79 years)
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| Name |
William Thompson Sloan [1, 2, 3] |
| Birth |
28 Sep 1849 |
Clarion Co., PA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1929 |
| Person ID |
I58125 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
9 May 2006 |
| Family |
Bertha Ameila Vandervoort, b. 1 Sep 1856, Sidney Twp, Hastings, Ontario, Canada d. 2 Sep 1933, Brazil, Clay, IN (Age 77 years) |
| Marriage |
1 Sep 1875 |
Elmwood, Ill |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F24225 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
22 Feb 2009 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Marriage - 1 Sep 1875 - Elmwood, Ill |
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| Notes |
| Sloan, W. T., M.D., druggist. |
The subject of this sketch is the son of John and Sebina Sloan, who were natives of Pennsylvania. His father died in 1855, and his mother - now Mrs. Johnson - is a resident of McClean Co, Ill.
He commenced the study of medicine under Dr. W. A. Baker of Reidsville, Pa. in 1868. In 1870 he attended lectures at the medical colege of Cleveland, O., and during the years of 1871 and 1872, practiced medicine in Jefferson Co., Pa.
He attended lectures at Bellevue Medical College, New York city , in 1873, and in the Spring of the following year graduated and moved to Elmwood, Peoria Co., where he has since resided and priacticed.
He has acquired a good share of medical practice of the town and surrounding country, and in 1879 added the business of drugguist and apothecary,
He married Miss Bertha Vandervoort, who was born in Canada in 1857, and by whiom he has one child, Eleanor, born in Jine 1877.
(The History of Peoria County, Illinois) |
| Peoria, city and county, Illinois |
In 1876, Dr. Sloan was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Vandervoort, of Elmwood, a daughter of J. A. Vandervoort and they are the parents of three children, of who two are living, John and Helen, the latter the wife of James C. McRae of Indianapolis. Their daughter Eleanor, the wife of S. M. Russell superintendent of the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad, died in 1908.
This two page article on pages 99 and 100 includes a photograph of Dr. Sloan. |
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| For more information see the Our Folk - Hart family Web Site |
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| Sources |
- [S762] Alita Holly, Alita's Roots, (http://www.gencircles.com/users/alitaholly/2/).
- [S880] Peoria, city and county, Illinois.
- [S964] The History of Peoria County Illinois, (Johnson & Company 1880).
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