Henry Slosson

SLOSSON, NEWTON, ROBINSON, LYON

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Date: 5/23/2004 at 22:29:06

Henry Slosson was born in Cayuga county, New York, April 26, 1803, and there learned the trade of morocco dressing, following the same in his native State until 1846, and serving in the employ of one man for twenty years. On February 25, 1843, he married Miss Laurena W. Newton, daughter of Calvin and Mary (Robinson) Newton and grand-daughter of Ebenezer Robinson, a soldier of the Revolutionary war.
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In 1846 Mr. Slosson emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, three years later to Illinois, eleven years subsequently to Wisconsin, and in 1865 to Iowa, where he soon became a resident of Butler county, living on section 1, Fremont township, until his death, which occurred October 18, 1872. He left five children – Emma A., Harry H. , Isabelle, Rosa L., now deceased, and William W.
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In 1880 Mrs. Slosson married William Lyon, a native of New Jersey, who came to Iowa in 1866. He died March 21, 1882. Mrs. Lyon now resides in Butler township. Her oldest son, George Francis Slosson, enlisted in 1864, at the age of sixteen years, in the Forty-first Wisconsin, and served 100 days, during which time he contracted disease which led to his death January 27, 1881.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 518