Stephen William SLOSSON
Name Stephen William SLOSSON [1]
Born 1828 Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York [1]
Census 1850 [2]
Living in Dekalb, Saint Lawrence Co., New York
Living in Dekalb, Saint Lawrence Co., New York.
Census 1870 Living in Indian Field, Tuscola Co., Michigan [4]
Occupation 1870 [4]
Clerk - Dry Goods Store
Died Abt 1900 Dayton, Hennepin County, Minnesota [1]
Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence Co., New York
Caro, Tuscola Co., Michigan
Dayton, Hennepin Co., Minnesota
NORTHERN NEW YORK - Gen and family hstory of northern New York
STEPHEN WILLIAM SLOSSON was born in 1828, in Gouverneur, and died about 1900, in Dayton, Hennepin County, Minnesota.
He grew up in Gouverneur, and when a young man went to DeKalb, same county (St. Lawrence county), where he conducted a general store and also dealt in ashes and lumber. He was very successful, and removed to Ogdensburg, where he kept a hotel known as the Morton House; removing thence to Cairo, Michigan, he again engaged in the drygoods business, with good success, and then removed to Minneapolis, Minneapolis, and also opened a general store there. He was prosperous as a business man and left a competence at his death.
He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and of the Masonic order. In early life he was a Democrat, later a Whig, and finally supported the Republican party.
While residing at Dekalb he was village clerk, and also postmaster.
He married (first) Mary Cooper, a granddaughter of William Cooper, one of the early residents of De Kalb, and a niece of J. Fennimore Cooper. He married (second) Orilla P. Rice, of Dekalb.
Children by first marriage:
Stephen William, died at an early life at Dekalb.
Mary, married Henry Palmer, a steamboat engineer of Heuvelton, and died in Minneapolis
Charles Clinton, lived in New York City, where he died in 1900.
Leslie Eugene, retired, dry-goods merchant, residing in Chicago.
George F.
Clifton, adopted when small boy by D.A. Moore, and died at DeKalb.
Person ID I53071 Main Tree
Father Stephen SLOSSON, b. Abt 1797, Grand Isle, Chittendon Co., Vermont , d. Bef 1850, Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., New York (Age ~ 52 years)
Relationship Birth
Mother Mrs. Stephen SLOSSON, d. Bef 1850, Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., NY
Family 1 Mary COOPER, b. abt. 1827, New York, USA , d. Abt 1858 (Age ~ 31 years)
Married 12 Sep 1844 [5]
1. Stephen William SLOSSON, b. abt. 1844, DeKalb, Saint Lawrence Co., New York , d. DeKalb, New York
2. Mary SLOSSON, b. abt. 1846, DeKalb, Saint Lawrence Co., New York
3. Charles Clinton SLOSSON, b. 1849, DeKalb, New York , d. 21 Oct 1895, New York, New York, USA (Age 46 years)
4. Leslie Eugene SLOSSON, b. 1852, DeKalb, New York , d. Roseville, Illinois
5. George Franklin SLOSSON, b. 05 Mar 1854, DeKalb, New York , d. Aft 1944 (Age > 91 years) [Birth]
6. Clifton Henry SLOSSON, b. 1856, DeKalb, Saint Lawrence Co., New York , d. Aft. 1860, DeKalb, New York (Age 5 years)
Family 2 Orilla P. RICE, b. Abt 1840, New York, USA
Married 1860 De Kalb, St. Lawrence Co., New York [1]
Born - 1828 - Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York
Married - 1860 - De Kalb, St. Lawrence Co., New York
Census - 1870 - Living in Indian Field, Tuscola Co., Michigan
Died - Abt 1900 - Dayton, Hennepin County, Minnesota
[S03336] Slason-Slauson-Slawson-Slosson Family by George C. Slawson dated 1946.
[S4417] 1850 Census Dekalb, Saint Lawrence County, New York.
[S00459] 1870 Census Indian Fields, Vascola County, Michigan.
[S7314] The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 1919 Vol. 50 No. 1 January.