Hon. Hannibal K. Sloan and Lauretta F. Bonner

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Husband Hon. Hannibal K. Sloan ^{1 2}

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           Born: 4 Sep 1838 - Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Capt. James M. Sloan (1813-1878) 2 3
         Mother: Margaret Kelly (1815-1884) 2 4

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       Marriage: 1868 1

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Wife Lauretta F. Bonner ¹

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            AKA: Loretta F. Bonner 5
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         Father: Manassas Bonner (      -      ) 5
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1 M Bert Sloan ⁵

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2 F Maggie R. Sloan ⁵

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3 F Kate Sloan ⁵

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4 M James B. Sloan ⁵

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5 F Geneva Sloan ⁵

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6 F Hope I. Sloan ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Hannibal K. Sloan

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He was educated in the common schools and the Indiana Academy. He was mustered into the service of the United States, June 10th, 1861, as second lieutenant company B, 11th regiment Pennsylvania R. C., promoted to first lieutenant; July 2d, 1861; to captain, Aug. 13th, 1863; was mustered out of service, June 13th, 1864, and was brevetted major, on the 13th of March, 1865. He was an assistant in the U. S. Internal Revenue Service, read law, and was admitted to the bar of Indiana County, at the September term of court, 1867. He was nominated in 1870, by the democrats of the legislative district of Indiana and Westmoreland counties, and was elected, serving as a member of the house of representatives during the session of 1871. He was nominated by the same party in Indiana County, for congress, in 1874, and selected in 1876, by the democratic senatorial conferees of the 37th district for the state senate, and at the ensuing election was defeated, though largely reducing the republican majority. On the 1st of June, 1880, he was nominated by the democrats of Indiana County, for the state senate.

He received his education in the public schools of Indiana and Indiana academy. He learned the trade of machinist, which he followed until he was nineteen years of age, when he commenced the study of law with Hon. H. W. Wier, who was chief justice of Idaho under Cleveland's administration. In 1861 he left his legal studies and enlisted as a private in a company which afterwards became Co. B, of the famous 11th Pennsylvania Reserves. He was made second lieutenant, then promoted to first lieutenant, and commissioned captain on December 13, 1862. He commanded the company from that date until it was discharged at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 13, 1864. Captain Sloan participated and led his company in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac from Gaines' Mill to the Wilderness battles. Returning home, he resumed his legal studies and was admitted to the Indiana bar in September, 1867. He opened an office and continued in the practice of his profession for over thirty years. In 1870 he was elected, as a democrat, to the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania from the republican county of Indiana. In 1888 his ability to overcome party lines and rally voters of all shades of political opinion to his support, was again demonstrated by his election to the State Senate from the Thirty-seventh Senatorial District, which was composed of the counties of Indiana and Jefferson, and was strongly republican. He held all of the offices of his borough, to which he was always elected independent of political consideration. He was a member of Indiana Lodge, No. 313, F. and A. M.; Indiana Post, No. 28, G. A. R., Encampment No. 11, U. V. L., and the I. O. H.
He was a man of fine personal appearance, over six feet in height, straight as an arrow and martial-looking. He was prominent in Grand Army circles and was recognized as one of the strong land lawyers of the State, and a power in the politics of western Pennsylvania. A prominent paper of southwestern Pennsylvania thus records the expressed opinion of him in that section as follows: "Senator Sloan is a gentleman of solid sense, broad intelligence and much experience in parliamentary bodies. Both his public and private life are without stain, and he is recognized as one of the truest friends of the agricultural and laboring classes. He is affable and unassuming, and meets men of high degree or humble station with equal cordiality and respect. No other name than his could be placed on the democratic standard of the State from western Pennsylvania that would draw to it a stronger independent republican and soldier support."

1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 523.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 145.

3 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 413, 523.

4 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 413, 522, 523.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 147.