Robert Sloan

SLOAN

Posted By: Volunteer - Debbie Clough Gerischer
Date: 11/4/2003 at 08:37:56

ROBERT SLOAN is a native of Ohio, where he was born October 21, 1835. At eighteen years of age he came to Iowa with his parents, having been reared on a far. His educational advantages were meager, being confined to the district schools and one year in the New Lisbon High School. After coming to Iowa he taught school until 1860 when he entered the law office of Judge George G. Wright at Keosauqua. So rapidly did he advance in his studies that he was admitted to the bar the following year. Mr. Sloan was in 1868 chosen Judge of the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District, serving twelve years. In 1894 he was elected Judge of the District Court, and has been repeatedly reelected, still holding that position.

Source:
HISTORY OF IOWA VOL. 4
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES
TO THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
FOUR VOLUMES
BY BENJAMIN F. GUE