Stephen SLOSSON

Family/Spouse: Mrs. Mrs. Stephen SLOSSON. Mrs. died before 1850 in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850; Living in Dekalb, Saint Lawrence Co., New York
• Census: 1860; Living in Dekalb, Saint Lawrence Co., New York.
• Census: 1870, Living in Indian Field, Tuscola Co., Michigan
• Occupation: 1870; Clerk - Dry Goods Store
• Census: 1880, Living in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minnesota
• Census: 1900, Living in Dayton, Hennepin Co., Minnesota

Notes:

Residences:
Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence Co., New York
Caro, Tuscola Co., Michigan
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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.

Stephen married Mary E. COOPER on 12 Sep 1844. Mary was born in abt. 1827 in New York, USA; died on 17 Oct 1859; was buried in Old De Kalb Cemetery, De Kalb, St. Lawrence Co., New YOrk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stephen married Orilla Philena RICE in 1860 in De Kalb, St. Lawrence Co., New York. Orilla was born on 6 Oct 1839 in New York, USA; died on 20 Oct 1902; was buried in Otsego Cemetery, Otsego, Wright Co., Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]