Foster Sloan

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Husband Foster Sloan ¹

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           Born: 7 Nov 1851 - Venango Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1922
         Buried:  - East Unity Presbyterian Cemetery, Allegheny Twp, Butler Co, PA 2

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         Father: James F. Sloan (Abt 1821-1898) 1 3
         Mother: Martha Ann Oliphant (Abt 1831-1903) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Foster Sloan

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He obtained his early education in the Pisgah School and later had one term at Clintonville, following which he took up farm duties and continued to assist his father until he went to teaming in the oil fields near his home, but later returned to the farm. Prior to his death, the father sold twenty-five acres of the homestead to his son Calvin and the remainder to Foster, who remained on the place and developed the property to its full extent. He had fine farming land and two productive orchards, five producing oil wells and a private coal bank. He also had seven acres in timber and devoted about eight acres to pasturage. He assisted in the erection of all his farm buildings, with the exception of the barn, which his father put up when Foster was an infant. In politics, Mr. Sloan was a Republican and he was a member of the Republican Township Committee. At different times he held local offices, for nine years be­ing a very efficient township auditor. He was a leading member of the United Presby­terian Church at Eau Claire, of which he was treasurer and one of the trustees. [HBC 1909, 1384]

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1384.

2 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 3, Scrubgrass Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1995), Pg 95.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 451.