Sloan, Alex B.

SLOAN, SHEEEDY

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/12/2013 at 08:34:26

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

SLOAN, ALEX. B.—Jefferson Twp—pg 971. Farmer, section 13, P.O. Belle Plaine. Was born in Delaware county, New York, in 1834. He followed farming in his native State until 1852, and then moved to Grant county, Wisconsin, resuming his former occupation, till 1859, when he came to Iowa and located where he now lives and owns 160 acres of well improved land. Mr. S. was married, in 1853, in Grant county, Wisconsin, to Miss Mary Ann Sheedy, a resident and native of that State, aged twenty-one. They have four children: William D. (aged ten), Thomas (aged seven), Robert (aged four) and Frank (aged two). Mr. S. enlisted, in 1864, in the Forty-fourth Wisconsin infantry, in which he served till the close of the war, participating in all the battles in which his regiment was engaged.