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History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania
Edited by A. J. Davis
Pub. D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, N.Y. - 1887

         [p. 642]
         
         SLOAN, WILLIAM C., was born in Clarion township, Armstrong 
       county, Pa., now Clarion county, in 1827. His father, JAMES
       SLOAN, settled in this county in 1818, and for several years
       contracted for the transportation of iron, hauling it from
       Center county, Pa., to the Clarion River, near where Clarion
       is now, and boating it from there to Louisville, Ky. His
       grandfather, JOHN SLOAN, was one of the first settlers in
       Westmoreland county, Pa., and had his share of fighting the
       Indians, hunting, clearing, etc., along with other new-comers.
       SARAH SLOAN, daughter of WILLIAM CORBETT, who had brought her
       to Clarion county from Mifflin county, Pa., when a child nine
       years old, was his mother.
       
         JAMES and SARAH had a family of four boys and three girls.
       Three of the sons served in the Union army during the entire
       Civil War. One of them has since died in Clarion county of
       sun-stroke received in Richmond, Va., at the time of its cap-
       tur; one is now living in San Francixco, Cal., and the other
       is living in Lancaster City, Pa.
       
         WILLIAM C. SLOAN learned the carpenter trade, and contracted
       for building when he was quite young, an occupation which he
       followed for several years. He also taught several terms of
       school, and rafted and ran boats on the river when not other-
       wise employed, always making it a point never to be idle. In
       1865 he purchased his farm in West Millville, and married
       SARAH J. HEPLER, daughter of JACOB and MARY HEPLER. The have
       since had five children, named respectively CARRIE BEE, FLORA
       M., J. FRANK, NORMAN JAY, and MYRA PEARLL.
       
         He laid out of the village of West Millville, Pa., in 1870,
       and has ever since taken an active interest in its improvement.
       From the time he bought his farm until 1872 he was engaged in
       the store business and improving his farm. Since that time,
       with the exception of the year 1852, which he spent among the
       Indians and buffaloes of British America and Dakota, he has
       devoted his entire attention to farming, and raising Jersey
       cattle and fine horses. MR. SLOAN has been an active worker in
       the Presbyterian Church at West Millville. He has always been
       industrious and economical, and is a useful citizen in the
       community in which he lives.
       
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