Owen Sloan (b. 1828)

SLOAN, MURRAY

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 6/24/2005 at 22:39:06

Sloan, Owen, farmer, Section 16; PO Waucoma; born in Ireland in 1828. Married Mary Murray in 1857; she was born in Ireland in 1828; have eight children --- Mary Ann, Thomas M., Ellen, Catherine, John, Maggie, Bernard and Lawrence. He came to this country when a boy, with his father, Michael, stopping temporarily at Halifax, and settled in Peoria, Illinois where lived until he came to this county in 1862 and settled on his present estate. He has a farm of eighty acres. Family are members of the Catholic Church.

Page 632, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"
Eden Township