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550 vana till May. after the surrender of the Confederate armies. Mr. Slidell settled in England at the close of the war, and continued there till his death. A full account of the relations of Mr. Slidell with the French government in regard to the building of the vessels mentioned above is contained in " Prance and the Confederate Navy," by John Bigelow (New York, 1888). His brut her. (1810-'60), was a judge of the Louisiana supreme court in 1845-'52, and then chief justice till 1855, when he was assaulted by a ruffian and received injuries from which he never recovered. With Judah P. Benjamin, he prepared a "Digest of Supreme Court Decisions."

SLOAN, Samuel, architect, b. in Chester county, Pa., 7 March, 1815 ; d. in Raleigh, N. C., 19 July, 1884. He established himself in Philadelphia, and designed many important buildings, among them the Blockley hospital for the insane in that city, and the state insane hospital at Montgomery. Ala. He conducted the " Architectural Review," beginning in 1868, and published " City and Suburban Architecture " (Philadelphia. 1859): "Constructive Architecture" (1859); "Model Architect" (I860); and "Designs for Rural Buildings" (1861).

SLOAN, Samuel, railroad president, b. in Lisburn. near Belfast, Ireland, 25 Dec., 1817. He came to this country in infancy, was graduated at Columbia college grammar-school in 1830, was engaged as a clerk, and afterward became a merchant. He was supervisor of Kings county in 1850-'!, and state senator in 1858-'9, and was elected president of the Hudson River railroad, 13 Feb., 1855, which office he retained till 1862. Subsequently for two years he was commissioner of the trunk lines of railroad to the west, as general arbitrator of railroad disputes. Mr. Sloan was elected president of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western railroad company in 1867, which post he now (1898) holds. He is also president of the Oswego and Syracuse; Syracuse, Binghamton, and New York; Utica, Chenango, and Susquehanna Valley; Fort Wayne and Jackson; Green Bay, Winona, and St. Paul; and other roads.

SLOANE, Sir Hans, bart., British naturalist, b. in Killyleagh, County Down, Ireland, 16 April, 1860; d. in London, 11 Jan., 1753. He studied medicine in London, in 1685 was elected a fellow of the Royal society, and afterward spent some time in Jamaica and other West India islands, where he collected a great, number of plants. He became physician-general to the army in 1716, president of the College of physicians in 1719, and physician to the king in 1727, and about the same time succeeded Sir Isaac Newton as president of the Royal society. His library and natural history collection were purchased by the British government after his death, and formed the beginning of the British museum. Besides numerous contributions to the " Philosophical Transactions," he published the " Natural History of Jamaica " (2 vols., London, 1707-'25).

SLOANE, James Renwick Wilson, educator, b. in Topsham, Orange co., Vt., 29 May, 1823 ; d. in Alleghany City, Pa., 6 March, 1886. He was graduated at Jefferson college, Canonsburg, Pa. in 1847. and studied theology at the Reformed Presbyterian seminary in northwestern Ohio, where he was graduated in 1853. In 1854 he became pastor at Rushsylvania. Ohio, and in 1856-'68 he held a charge in New York city. He was president of Richmond college, Ohio, in 1848-"50, of Geneva college, in the same state, in 1851-'6, and professor of systematic theology and homiletics in Alleu'han theological seminary from 1868 till his death. He was also pastor of the 1st Reformed Presbyterian church in Alleghany. He published numerous sermons and literary addresses. See his "Life and Work," edited by his son, William (New York, 1888). His son, William Millisran, educator, b. in Rich- mond, Ohio, 12 Nov., 1850, wasgraduated at Columbia in 1868. He was instructor in classics in Newell institute, Pittsburg, in 1868-'72, studied in Berlin and Leipsie in 1872-'6, and in 1873-'5, in addition, was also private secretary of George Bancroft, then minister at Berlin, and worked under his direction on the tenth volume of the " History of the United States." From 1877 till 1883 he was assistant and professor of Latin in Princeton, and professor of history in that institution. In 1897 he accepted the professorship of history in Columbia. He edited the "New Princeton Review" and his father's "Life and Work" (New York, 1888). and has published "French War and the Revolution" (1893) and "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte" (4 vols., 1896-7).

SLOANE, John, statesman, b. in York, Pa., in 1779; d. in Wooster, Ohio, 15 May, 1856. He removed to Ohio at an early age, was a member of the state assembly in 1804-'6, and served the last two years as speaker. He was U.S. receiver of public moneys at Canton 1808-'16, and at Wooster in 1816-'19, was elected to congress from Ohio, and served by successive elections from 6 Dec., 1819, till 3 March, 1829. He was clerk of the court of common pleas for seven years, secretary of state of Ohio three years, and was appointed treasurer of the United States, serving from 27 Nov., 1850, till 1 April, 1853. During the war of 1812 he was colonel of militia.

SLOANE, Rush Richard, lawyer, b. in Sandusky, Erie co., Ohio, 18 Sept., 1828. He was educated at Wesleyan academy, Norwalk, Ohio, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. He was city clerk of Sandusky, Ohio in 1855-'7, was elected judge of the probate court for Erie county in 1857, and re-elected in 1860, was appointed by President Lincoln to the general agency of the post-office department, serving from 1861 till 1866, and was mayor of Sandusky in 1870, 1880, and 1881. Mr. Sloane was an ardent anti-slavery man, and was instrumental in the escape of seven slaves in Sandusky, on 20 Oct., 1850, where they had been arrested by their masters. He was prosecuted, and paid over $4,000 damages and costs, being the first victim of the fugitive-slave law of 1850.

SLOANE, Thomas O'Conor, chemist, b. in New York city, 24 Nov., 1851. He is a nephew of Charles O'Conor. After graduation at St. Francis Xavier's college in 1870. and at the School of mines of Columbia in 1872, with the degree of E. M., he received the degree of Ph. D. in 1876 from the latter institution. His scientific work has included a method for the determination of sulphur in illuminating gas, and various other improved processes for the estimation of constituents in gas analysis. Dr. Sloane has invented the thermophote, which is the only apparatus ever devised for registering automatically and mechanically the illuminating power of gas. He has lectured extensively in schools and before public audiences, and since 1883 has been lecturer in chemistry and physics at Seton Hall college. His services have been frequently called for as an expert in patent suits, and he is' regularly retained by law firms in New York city. In 1878-'80 he was one of the department editors of the "Sanitary Engineer." and since 1886 has been one of the staff of the "Scientific American." He has contributed largely to technical journals in this country ami alu-oad. and is a member of scientific societies. From 1882