Biography

09/08/1820 - 05/23/1889

SLOAN, John C., a Representative from Washington County; born, September 8, 1820 in Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pa.; attended, Florence Academy; attended, Frankfort Academy; engaged, coal business; farmer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1857 term; term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1858 term; elected, delegate, Republican State Convention (1857); elected, school director, Hopewell Township (20 years); traverse juror, Washington County (1870); elected, director of the poor, Washington County (1882-1894); died, May 23, 1889 in Washington County, Pennsylvania; interred, Raccoon Church Cemetery, Candor, Washington County, Pennsylvania.