Abner SLOSSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Occupation: 1850; Farmer
• Census: 1860, Living in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Occupation: 1860; Farmer

Notes:

"George Slawson: An American Pioneer" by Harold D. Slosson: Abner was getting older, and in that day of early marriages was probably called an old bachelor by his friends. Finally, at the age of thirty-three, he had a romance with a local girl, being married on March 14, 1833, to Nancy Marean. the years likewise had been moving by for Nancy, who was two years older than Abner, having been born on July 11, 1798, the daughter of Thomas and Esther (Patterson) Marean.
Nancy's folks - The Pattersons and the Mareans - were pioneers in that area, having arrived in 1786, the year after Binghampton was founded. At the time of their arrival, according to old notes, there were only four houses in that area.....
Abner's home at Newark Valley was only about a dozen miles from these commercially promising cities. But he did not feel the urge to join them in their growth. Rather, he and Nancy, after marriage, moved a short way to the east to another small village called Maine, just over the line in Broome County. He has been handed down to the writer that Abner's farm was a good one. Also, that it was close in, being only a mile from the village.
Nancy and Abner had three children, born and raised on their farm, as follows: John Marean Slosson, born March 29, 1835, ...;Rebecca Emily Slosson, born the next year, was later married to Eldad Barber; and finally came Albert Slosson, born in 1838, who never married.
The Abner Slossons, as near as is known, had a successful but rather uneventful life on their farm, probably helping with church and community affairs. finally, on March 2, 1865 - just a month before the close of the Civil War - Nancy passed on. Shortly afterward Abner sold his farm, as did his son, Albert, and then, together with Abner's daughter Rebecca Barber, they moved west to Northwood, Iowa, to be with Abner's first-born son, John Marean Slosson, already established there.
It is believed that this change in location was in the nature of a retirement, "moving to town." Finally, in 1877, at the age of seventy-seven years, Abner passed on to his reward. His son, Albert, lived until 1904, with his sister, Rebecca, having passed away sometime after her marriage to Eldad Barber in 1883.

Abner married Nancy MAREAN on 14 Mar 1833 in Northwood, Worth County, Iowa. Nancy (daughter of Thomas MAREAN and Esther PATTERSON) was born on 11 Jul 1798 in Union, New York; died on 02 Mar 1865 in Maine, Broome County, New York; was buried in Maine Village Cemetery, Maine Broome Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Census: 1860, Living with parents in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Census: 1880, Living in Northwood, Worth Co., Iowa
• Occupation: 1880; Farmer

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Census: 1860, Living with parents in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Census: 1880, Living with brother in Northwood, Worth Co., Iowa
• Death: 1891, Northwood, Worth County, Iowa

Rebecca married Eldad BARBER on 01 Jan 1883 in Worth County, Iowa. Eldad was born in 1835; died on 18 Sep 1894 in Worth County, Iowa; was buried in State Line cemetery, Worth Co., Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Census: 1880, living in Kensett Twp., Worth Co., Iowa
• Occupation: 1880; Farmer

Notes:

"George Slawson: An American Pioneer", by Harold D Slosson: John was the New York school teacher who in 1859 took his bride Roxy Jane, across the country - partway in a covered wagon - to Northwood, Iowa. There, while raising their family, the Slossons struggled to subdue a large farm on the prairie....
At this particular time, 1856, there was offered by the United States government to its citizens an opportunity to preempt land in southeas Minnesota. Preemption was a federal enactment (1841) to encourage development, whereby after a time settlers onpublic lands might purchase that porperty at a reasonable price.
It was just the opportunity that John, now age twenty-one and a citizen, had been waiting for. "He got the western fever,: explained one of his sons many years later. So, after making arrangements with the school and getting things in order, he started out on his great adventure - a trip to the west.
A prerequisite for traveling at that time was a stout purse well-filled with cash. Travel cards, credit cards, and branch banks were unheard of; nor could the traveler telegraph home for more funds. At each transfer point, John would have to put cash on the counter to get his ticket for the next leg of the journey.
Additionaly, John had to have physical strength to hold his own against bandits and gunmen in the frontier towns. Strength of character was likewise needed to avoid losing money to a trickster, bunko artist, or even some woman at that time preying on green lads from the country.
Also, when John reached his destination, he would need money to live on and to develop the new land for which, finally, he had to pay the government. Emergency funds were advisable, too. All of which made a western migration a major project for a young man like John, who had just reached his majority.
Once at Spring Valley, Minnesota, John worked on his new land. Details of his efforts have been los, but it is recorded that after completing his preemption requirements, John sold out to someone else - not an unusual circumstance at that time.
Meanwhile, John had heard of rich farmland to be had at a nominal price pleasantly located in north-central Iowa. It was in Worth County, where susequently the small town of Northwood was started. This was an opportunity that appealed to John, who had money in his pocket from the sale of the Spring Valley land.....
John Slosson arrived in Northwood in 1857, the year the town was plotted. Recognized as one of the first permanent settlers in Worth County, he purchased his farmland in section twenty-nine, now inside the present town of Northwood....
Meanwhile, John was carrying on with his farming. He was handicapped at times for supplies, since in all Worth county there was only one store. Started late in 1857, this store was operated by B.H. Beckett in a small fame building - the first business structure in that section. Supplies had to be hauled in by ox teams some 130 miles from McGregor on the Mississippi River....By the same token, farm products had to be shipped out by this same route at an understandably high charge, thus reducing the farmer's net income. Nevertheless, John seemed to have managed well, and to have a promising future. In 1859, therefore, when he was twenty-four years old, he made another important decision. it was to return to his home state of New York and there in De Ruyter to marry his sweetheart of schoolteaching days, Roxy Jane Finch....
When John reached De ruyter, he was greeted by the Finches, who were a large and important family in that new York area. So we can be certain that John and Roxy jane said their vows in a pleasant, old-fashioned church wedding...
...John Slosson had first lived on a small farm in section twenty-nine - John's early purchase - in what is now a part of the town of Northwood. This farm was subscquently sold, and in the spring of 1869 John acquired another farm three and a half miles southward from Northwood. It is in section sixteen, Kensett Township; but Northwood, which is in Worth County, still remained the center of the family's interests.
This new farm was nearly a section of land, or one square mile in size. More precisely, it was a little less than 600 acres. Flowing through th property, adding to its scenic attractiveness, was the Shell Rock River, which passes along the south side of the town of Northwood. The family home - anangular, Eastern-type, two-story frame building - was located on a knoll on the river bank, just out of reach of the seasonal floods...
John Slosson, Senior, was thirty-four years old when the family moved to the large farm. He is understood to have been reasonably tall and rather spare....He took an active interest in commnitym county, and state affairs. A summary of the father's life as written by his son, Frank.
Mr. Slosson (John arean, Sr.) helped to organize Kensett township and was chairman of the first board of trustees. He took an active interest in the organization of the same county. He, together with his eldest son, Charles E., established the first creamery in Worth County, it being one of the first in the state. In 1887 he was elected by a large majority to represent Worth County in the State Legislature, but owing to failing health he was not a candidate for reelection.
He was a successful farmer, taking a special interest in stock raising and horticultural matters. His death occured on March 29, 1900, one day previous to his 65th birthday.
The foregoing account is in accord with an obituary writted in the local newspaper at that time. Under the heading of "Hon. J.M. Slosson Dead," there is mentioned the community's high esteem "...for one of Worth County's earliest citizens as well as one of its best." It further states that "....with all of his old ambitions and his honors, he was a modet unobtrusive man...of spotless integrity, one who dealt justly with every one and wisted all men well." Continuing on, "he was a public spirited citizen who won the full confidence and liking of all who really knew him."
....It was provided in his will that his widow, Roxy Jane, should have a life lease on the property. But subject to this lease, about half of the land - some 300 acres, which included the farmhouse and barns - was willed to his then youngest son, John, Jr., who was at that time helping his father on the farm. Thus he might be expected to remain there. The other half of the property was willed in euql shares to the remaining children - Charles, Mary, and Frank.
Relieved of the farm's management, as would have been her task had the farm come to her outright shortly after the turn of the century, John's widow, Roxy Jane, moved to Monrovia, California. This was with her daughter Mary, and granddaughter, Jean. John did keep his half of the farm throughout his life. The land portions willed to Charles, Mary, and Frank were sold for their respective accounts.
Roxy Jane Slosson was living in retirement in Monrovia, California. there she had a small home - a California bungalow, which was occupied jointly with her daughter, Mary, and granddaughter, Jean. Roxy Jane kept busy with fruit trees around the place, as well as being active in local church work.
Grandmother Roxy Jane (Finch) Slosson in her youth was undoubtedly a good-looking woman of the fair type. Even in later years, her eyes were bright her features regular, and her skin perfectly clear and white. This smooth, clear skin seemed to be a Fionch family characteristic, evidenced in her sisters Hattie and Julia.
She was an early-day conservationist. Each sack or piece of paper that came into the house was saved on the shelf for future use. Pieces of string, no matter how small, were tied to the end of the string ball, which ever increased in size. Furthermore, grass clippings were placed under the home fruit trees where chickens grazed and lived on table scraps. Thus, the soil was enriched so that more fruit was produced, with the excess being canned in Mason jars to be used as the wintertime dessert.....
Of rather slight build, Roxy Jane Slosson nevertheless kept alert and active until her passing at the age of seventy-nine. Her buial place is in the Live Oak Cemetery at Monrovia. She can be remembered as a devout, faithful, hard-working pioneer woman, who raised her family under the rugged conditions existent on the early American plains.....

Family/Spouse: Jennie Roxy FINCH. Jennie was born on 19 May 1840 in Broome Co., New York; died in 1919 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Live Oak Cemetery, Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, living with parents in Kensett Twp., Worth Co., Iowa
• Census: 1900, Living in Kensett, Worth County, Iowa
• Occupation: 1900; Farmer
• Census: 1910, Living in Northwood, Worth Co., Iowa
• Occupation: 12 Sep 1918; Self employed
• Census: 1920, Living in Northwood, Worth Co., Iowa
• Occupation: 1920; Agent - Real Estate
• Census: 1930, Living in Northwood, Worth Co., Iowa
• Death: Feb 1963

Notes:

J.M. Slosson

SLOSSON, SAVRE

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall
Date: 4/13/2005 at 05:48:15

J.M. Slosson
Senator from the Forty-first district, composed of the counties of Mitchell, Winnebago and Worth, was born in Kensett township, Worth county, Iowa, October 27, 1876. His parents were pioneer settlers of Worth county. He attended the rural schools, Northwood High school and Nora Springs Seminary. Was married June 1, 1899, to Sophie Savre. Served six years as county recorder of Worth county. He is engaged in farming and the buying and selling of farm lands. Represented Worth county in the thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth General Assemblies. Elected senator in 1920. A republican in politics.

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Biographies of State Senators, pg. 330

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall (not related to subject)

"George Slawson: An American Pioneer" by Harold D. Slosson - John, Jr., the optimist, was a successful realtor - a "land merchant", his advertisements read Aided by his wife, Sophie, he ehlped his hometown, Northwood, Iowa, conquering troubles during the Great Depressin. In public service he had been mayor, state assemblyman, and state senator.....
John was a cheerful person, seemingly the most lighthearted of the family. He was even something of a humorit, a number of his pleasantries being remembered to this day...
John was a popular young man in the town of Northwood. Thus, in the course of time he found favor with an attractive town girl, Sophie Savre, oldest daughter of Ed Savre, sherriff of the county....
John had a serious as well as a fun-loving side. On his father's passing he took over the farm management, doing most of the physical labor himself...working early and late, plowing, feeding stock, repairing buildings or doing whatever was required to keep things going.
The hard work showed on his person, making him a slender, muscular man at that thime, possibly a little above average in height...in later years John became rather heavy, a rounded endomorph in appearance....
"In the summer of 1904, John had concluded to make a canvass for the Republican nomination to the office of County Recorder. Though there was a large field of contestants, he was chosen by a safe margin, and duly elected. In 1906 he was re-elected without opposition having proven himself a capable and obliging official."....
He remained in this public office until 1911. During that time he had enlarged his acquaintance with people in the area.....He became a partner with a realtor by the name of Emory who had an office on Northwood's main street.
Emory and Slosson, "Earth Merchangs," became an active realty sales firm. Wirtten on their letterhead was "Our Motto is a Square Deal to both Buyer and Seller."...
Although Mr. Emory passed on after a time, John continued this interest in real estate through the rest of his life. At times, he took time off for public duties. In 1916 he was elecgted representative from that district to the Thirty-seventh General Assembly of the Iowa State Legislature. This was the same public service as given by his father some thirty years before. Furthermore, it resembled the public contribution made by the first family member, George Slawson, who for six years, starting in 1657, was the Stamford deputy to the General Court in New Haven, Connecticut....
While John disclaimed being a politician, he seemed to have been an effective one in that area. With a friendly nature, local business experience, farmer and townsmen alike. Thus, it is not surprising that John served two terms (1917-1921) as an assemblyman. Therefore, he served as a state senator (1921-1925). These legislatie sessions were held in the state capital, Des Moines, where for the interim he lived with his wife, Sophie....After the 1925 session, John never ran for state office again, taking on only local duties...
John's realty business, to which he returned after having been a state senator, was described in a Northwood "Anchor" news release for August 16, 1951 - "John Slosson, President of the Farmers' Loan and Investment Company, is the pioneer real estate and loan man in this section of the state." Further, that in the thirty-eight years of his business he had sold thousands of acres of farmlands in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota....While Farmers' Loan and Investment Company was the firm name then used, for a longer period it was called the J.M. Slosson Investment Company...
John served as president, 1939-1946 to the Worth county Co-op Oil Company....Was also president of the Worth county Agricultural Society..He also served as Mayor..
Sophie Slosson had been a good helpmate to John. She kept their home attractive, a comfortable place for John's return after his business and public affairs. Meanwhile, she helped her church and the good causes in the town. Gifted with artistic talent , she painted in oils, producing creditable landscapes, rural scenes about the town...She also was a good raconteur....
Sophie belonged to a large family of brothers and sisters, most of whom soon moved to larger cities elsewhere. but two sisters, Rose Hanson and Ella Johnson, remained in Northwood, being attentive to the Slossons in their senior years...
Unfortunately, Sophie and John were not blessed with children. But they did adopt a young girl, Norma, who brought great joy to thier life. With a pleasant disposition, she became a schoolteach, helping young children get started in life. But Norma was not strong passing away in her early thirties despite the best medical care obtainable at that time.
At the time of their sixtieth anniversary, John was nearly eighty-three years old, but fairly active. Finally, on March 9, 1963, at the age of eighty-six, he left his beloved wife, Sophie, his Northwood friends, and the Shell Rock River, passing on to the great beyond.
Sophie remained in their Northwood home until, with increasing infirmity, she moved to a nearby convalescent home. There she lived until april 21, 1969, when she passed away at the age of ninety-two. John, Sophie, and Norma, remaining with their hometown to the end, are buried in Sunset View Cemetery, Northwood, Iowa.

John married Sophie SAVRE on 01 Jun 1899 in Worth County, Iowa. Sophie was born in Mar 1878 in Iowa; died on 21 Apr 1969 in Northwood, Worth County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, living with parents in Kensett Twp., Worth Co., Iowa
• Occupation: 1880; Works on the Farm
• Census: 1900, Living in El Monte, Los Angeles Co., California

Notes:

"George Slawson - An American Pioneer": by Harold D. Slosson - Charley, the small-town entrepreneur, went to California during the land boom of the 1880s. There, aided by his wife Anna, he started a number of enterprises.
September 25, 1860 in Northwood, Iowa, Charles Eugene Slosson was born as the first child of John and Roxy Jane Slosson...
Charley, as he was commonly called, commenced live on the Slosson's first, small farm, close in to the small town of Northwood where he started school.....
In 1869, his parents took him as a nine-year-old boy to their new section-size farm southeast of the town....
Sorghum was one of the crops raised on the Slosson farm. It is a tall-growing plant resembling perhaps corn or sugar cane. Further, like sugar cane its stalks are sweet, being chewed on for their pleasant taste. Again, it may be fed to stock or pressed to obtain sorghum syrup, popular on the breakfast table. At that time, men in the field cut the stalks using large knives,probably like a machete.
When cutting the stalks in this way, Charley received a bad gash on his leg. The wound bled profusely, with Mary being greatly alarmed. The father, from a long frontier life, was evidently a good first aider; the flow of blood was staunched, and the cut healed without ill aftereffects. The point of this story (as told by Mary), ws that raming life could be rough, hazardous at times, as well.
Butter, another farm product, was early made by the housewife in a hand-operated churn. John Slosson, the father, saw the advantage of a central milk collecting place, or creamery, as the efficient was to make butter. So with the help of Charley he built the first creamery in Worth County, and one of the first in the state.
The creamery business did all right. Additionally, Charley had abstracted land titles, and had served as deputy county treasurer and auditor. But by the middle 1880s Charley found something else churning in his mind. A great land boom was starting in southern California; he wanted to go there and be a part of it.....
He arrived sometime before December 1887.
Not long after Charley's arrival he was serving as a deputy in the city clerk's office. In 1889 he was appointed city clerk, his promotion - according to Wiley's 'History of Monrovia' - being earned by "faiathful service and attention to business." In this capacity he remained until his resignation in 1897.
....Probably the resignation followed the press of personal business. Soon we fin there is the Slosson Livery Stable.
C.E. SLOSSON, Proprietor
Monrovia Livery, Feed and Sale Stables
Horses and Crriages Bought, Sold and
Exchanged
Open Day and Night
Contractors for Household Moving, All Kinds of Team Work

For a time Charley had a prominent local man by the name of Cornes as his partner.....
Meanwhile, Chrley had become the first notary public in the town, and had gone into the real estate business. His office was on Monrovia's main street, Myrtle Avenue, being on the east side between Olive and Orange. There Charley sold all classes of property, possibly his most import being the subdividing of the sizable Oak Park Tract on the east side of town. Two other subdivisions of Charley's were the Valle Vista and the Orange Avenue tracts......
In Iowa, Charley had helped free the farm wife from the churning detail; now in California he helped release the housewife from washboard drudgery. With others he started the Monrovia Steam Laundry, possibly a successor to Chinese hand laundry, or to another laundry which had been there before. A commercial laundry was then needed, too, since this was before the days of the automatic washer and dryer; nor was there then electric power to run such units...
Somewhat similar to this foregoing enterprise was the San Gabriel River Rock and Gravel Company, which Charley helped organize, serving as its president for some time....
The townsmen organized the "Monrovia Rifles," sometimes called the "Monrovia Guards." Charley is listed as a volunteer on their roster.....
Charley had helped organize Monrovia's first Board of Trade and had served as its secretary. But his greatest public service, perhaps, was in connection with water....
In 1899 a committee of city trustees and prominent men, including Charley Slosson, was formed to study the water problem. Their recommendation for the purchase of Chapman water-bearing land was favorably acted on, with the water line being laid into town along what is now Foodhill Boulevard. This saved the day, with other water sources being located later. In 1903 Charley again served on a later committee which recomended further improvements at the Chapman wells....
On October 2, 1889, Charley married Anna V. McCullough, who had been born July 3, 1860, in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Anna at that time was a popular young school-teacher.
Initially the young couple lived in a frame house on North Encinitas Avenue. Subsequently, for some years this property was in various family hands. At about the turn of the century, Charley and Anna moved to a larger house on East Lime Avenue, just a block from the main street. Many social events were held there, including the entertaining of important dignitaries, such as congressmen. For a time Chrley served as a menber of the Republican Central Committee of Los Angeles County, having been on the executive committee for two years.
Charley and Anna had one child, Arlne, born in Monrovia on Jul 16, 1895....
Anna Slosson was honored as being a charter menber of the First Presbyterian Church, and singing for many years in its choir. She was also a charter member of the Monrovia Women's Club, serving as its secretary. Another cause she aided was the starting of the Monrovia Public Library.
On Janue 12, 1916, Charley passed away in Monrovia, the town he had helped for so many years. There, also, Anne had passed away on November 3, 1937. they are buried in southwest Los Angeles where Anna's folks had a family plot, in an old, but beautiful cemetery called Rosedale.

Charles married Anna V. MCCULLOCH on 02 Oct 1889 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California. Anna was born on 03 Jul 1860 in Kingston, Pennsylvania; died on 03 Nov 1937 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, living with parents in Kensett Twp., Worth Co., Iowa

Notes:

"George Slawson: An American Pioneer" by Harold D. Slosson - Roy, the student, had great promise as a leader in the intellectual field. Unfortunately, just before his school graduation, there came a tragedy....
A school record still remaining shows that Roy was in the academic department. But he had varied interests, being enrolled in a scientific course. Also, he served on the editorial staff of the school's paper, the "Nora Springs Seminarian". In a totally different area, he gave an impersonation in the annuel elocution contest.
Finally, in June 11, 1896, was to come the graduation exercises for the Class of 1896, Academic Department of the Nora Springs Seminary and Business College. It was to be Roy's big day, for although he was just seventeen, he was a senior in the class and was to give one of the orations. Just before those exercises, there is what happened, according to some news accounts still preserved.
The preceptor, as the elocution coach was called, together with five boys in the class, had gone to the banks of the Shell Rock River, not far away. there, as practice for the final night, each boy in turn recited his oration to the professor.
Their orations having been given, one of the boys proposed that they bathe in the stream, as was common custom of boys in rural areas at that thime. Two of the boys, who could not swim, went upstream, then aroung a bend where they believed the water was shallow for easy wading across. Perhaps as a gesture of friendship, Roy - believed to hae been only a fair swimmer - had accompanied them.
Soon, one of the boys who had initially remained behind went upstream, arriving around the bend only in time to see Roy apparently in a vain attempt to rescue his companions. What must have looked to them like a shallow place in the river had turned out to be a deep hole. All three boys were drowned.
"There is no doubt in the minds of the professor or Roy's classmates," states the previously mentioned news account, "that Roy in a brave and noble effort to rescue his friends and classmates, gave up his own life."
In a matter of minutes had ended the promising career of Roy C. Slosson. memorial services were held in Northwood, Iowa, on June 8, 1896....
Near a pine tree in the old Prairie cemetery north of town rest the mortal remains of Roy Clinton Slosson.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, living with parents in Kensett Twp., Worth Co., Iowa
• Occupation: 1880; Teaching school
• Census: 1900, Living with brother in El Monte, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1910, Living with mother in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1920, Living in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1930, Living with daughter, Alma J. Smith, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California

Notes:

"George Slawson : An American Pioneer" by Harold D. Slosson - Mary, the spiritual leader, was also for a time a freelance writer. In 1902, sometime after the passing of her husband, she moved with her daughter, Jean, from Iowa to California.
When middle-aged Mary studied Spanish, becoming conversational in that language......
In 1887 came Mary's turn to travel on that same train she had frequently seen. Accompanied by her older brother, Charley, she had gone for a visit to her Bigelow relatives in Duarte, California.
After that California trip, mary returned to her professional work in the Northwood area. She was helped by her varied talents, with a clipping in the family records saying in part, "She has proved herself adept with the pen and at raising pure-bred poultry. She is a prize contributor to the American Agriculturist, the Home, Practical housekeeper, Ladies' world and other home journals. Her articles are mostly children's stories, domestic talks, and poultry notes."
In 1890 a romantic event came into her life. It was described by one of her writer friends that "she was caught in Cupid's net." For in that year Mary was married to George W. Stelson, who had been born on September 6, 1858, in Fulton County, New York. This county, above the Mohawk River, is farther north than the Slossons' early family location in new York State. In Iowa, George Stelson lived in Kensett township, where he may have been associated with John Slosson in some project on the farm.
Mary was tall, erect woman with a good bearing. It was said that, tall though she was, George was even taller. The marriage of this couple - Mary and George - came on a special day, July 4, 1890.
On November 5, 1896, a daughter was born to this couple named Alma Jean, who was generally called Jean in later years. With her parents, she was living at that time on the Northwood farm....
On September 20, 1897, to this family came a sorrow. For then the father, George Stelson, passed away. He was praised highly in the Northweed newspapers, with the obituary column still being in the famiy records. The Burial was in the Slosson family plot at the State Line Cemetery, between Northwood and Albert Lea, Minnesota.
Through the years, Mary kept an active interest in her church. Even when moving from place to place, she immediately identified herself with some church....Willing to become involved, soon she was teaching a Sunday School class or doing some other worthwhile work. In Monrovia, Mary taught a boys' class for many years.....
After Jean had completed her freshman year at Pomona, mother and daughter moved to Berkeley. There Jean, always a good student, completed three more years of schooling, graduating from the University of California in 1918.
The next move was back to southern California, where in Los Angeles, mary first rented a house in te Exposition Park district. This was when Jean enrolled in the Los Angeles Public Library school. After completion of the course, she became a member of the library staff. mary next purchased a place in the West Adams district, where the family lived for many years...
Throughout her later years, mary had been troubled with some form of digetive disturbance. Because of it, at least twice she had been critically ill, only to survive, semingly, because of Divine intervention. But she lived prudently, being temperate in her eating, which to some extent was largely a natural food diet....It had paid off, since she lived past the biblical "three score and ten years,". She was still in fair health when she passed away at the age of seventy-two.
When small, Mary saw the circuit preacher riding across the prairie to his flock in Northwood. Now elderly, strong in the Gospel faith, on May 23, 1934, Mary went home to be with the Lord. Mourned by her many friends and relatives, she was buried in the family plot in Live Oak Cemetery, Monrovia.

Mary married George W. STELSON on 04 Jul 1890 in Worth County, Iowa. George was born on 06 Sep 1858 in Fulton County, New York; died on 20 Sep 1897 in Northwood, Worth County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, living with parents in Kensett Twp., Worth Co., Iowa
• Occupation: 1880; Works on the Farm
• Census: 1900, Living in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado
• Occupation: 1900; Coal Miner
• Census: 1910, Living in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Occupation: 1910; Real Estate Agent

Notes:

"George Slawson: An American Pioneer" - by Harold D. Slosson
Frank was the adventurer, who, with his wife Nellie Dye, raised a family of six children. In spite of doing this, in his lifetime he was able to take part in many exciting things. Examples are holding down a Dakota timber claim, joining in the Oklahoma land rush, staking mining claims in Colorado's Cripple Creek gold camp, and developing sagebrush land near the Mojave Desert.....
After completion of elementary school, for a time Frank went to Osage Academy, located in Iowa's Mitchell County. Finally he attended Iowa State University at Ames, which had courses in agriculture, engineering, mechanical arts, etc. While there, he was a membe of the National Guard. Still preserved is a badge he received reading "Best Drilled Company, College Battalion, I.A.C., 1885".
Frank attended Iowa State University one year, it is known, and he may have gone there longer. Next, for three terms he taught school, with possibly a part of the time being in the Slosson country school....
Frank teamed up with another young Northwood man, an old family friend believed to be named Atwood. These two ytoung men took adjacent timber claims, located somewhere in the Dakotas, not then divided into North and South Dakota. It was rugged country, too, with some Sioux Indians, it is believed, still in the area.
Frank Slossn and young Atwood, living in cabins at adjacent corners of their respective "160s," did their cooking ("batching") together. It was an enjoyable period, but perhaps without the challenge of social contacts. After the prescribed year of work, Frank relinquished his claim and went back to Northwood.....
Frank accepted a position in the Railway Mail Service tht had benn offered to him. He would travel on the train and see that the mail went through. Earlier, all mail had been sorted at the respective post offices along the railroad line. Time-consuming for the postmasters, that method had slowed down mail collection and delivery as well. Then came the concept of having trained men traveling on a special mail car. They would continuously sort mail picked up in bags stationed by the tracks. The sorted mail would next go into other bags which were tossed off at new stations in succession. This railway mail service, it is recorded, worked well from the start.
Frank became a guardian and classifer of the U.S. Mail, with a chance to see that part of the country....
Frank was granted a leave of absence from the railway mail service to go to Oklahoma. To enter the land race..... Troops stood guard on the borders of this land to hold back the horde of prospective settlers. Then, on April 22, 1889, at the prescribed hour, bugles blew, and the big Oklahoma land rush was one.....According to the plan of this land opening, the entrant had the option of lots or of land. Frank chose lots, going right where the train took him - to what turned out to be the center of Oklahoma City....
Frank staked lots, camped on them, and held off all usurpers. He lived there for a while, probably "batching" in a tent. Around him in that immediate area almost instantaneously 15,000 people had come.....
It was probably a month or two before Frank had sold out and returned to Northwood. Frank's position was still open, and he continued with the railway mail service for some years thereafter.
Before going back to work for the railway mail service, he did have a moment of glory in this hometown of Northwood. After purchasing a new suit, it is recorded, he went around visiting old friends who immediately, in a grand welcome, dubbed him "Oklahoma." Frank was someone; he had participated in perhaps the greatest land rush of all time......
He had a romance with a pleasant young Northwood woman by the name of Nellie Dye. A popular member of Northwood's first high school graduating class. Nellie was also an artist, using crayons and oils for painting portraits and landscapes.....Interested in poetry, too, Hamlet had been her junior class essay assignment. Additionally she played the organ, having, one of the old pump types with tremolo and other stops for various effects....
Frank had an adventurour spirit and so, in 1894, after the depression of that year, he decided to leave the railway mail service... He decided to go to Colorado Springs, close to Cripple Creek.... Their new home, Colorado Springs, was over a mile high, the elevation being 5,980 feet....At first, according to Nellie in later years, they lived in La Verne, a place not now existent, on the Cripple Creek side of Colorado Springs. Here was born Harold Dye Slosson.... Eventually the family moved to their permanent home in Colorado Springs at 828 Spruce Street, near Mesa.
Frank, having friends in Colorado Springs, and some savings, went into the business of selling real estate and mining stocks. This latter helped the prospector to commercialize his mineral discovery. One of his business cards shows "McGill & Slosson, Real Estate, Mining Stocks, Loans & Insurance," with its location at 107 South Tejon Street. For a time, also, he was associated with C.S. Wilson, with the Colorado Springs Board of Trade & Mining Exchange, listing these partners in their directory as members in good standing.....
Partnership was common in those mining days.... He had a couple of mining claims with his father-in-law, Nelson T. Dye, in te rugged Tarrall area of Park County....In partnership with tow other Colorado Springs businessmen, mark L. Dorr and Alexander Merideth, Frank purchased some 160 acres just north of town....The partners soon surmised that down below the land surface was a layer of coal.....A Mr. Corley, who had come into the area with considerable means, leased the property from Frank and his associates on a royalty basis. A two-carpartment shaft was sunk some 477 feet deep, where they found the coal layers, as predicted...
In 1903, for the best interests of their family, Frank and Nellie decided to leave Colorado to make a new start in California.... It was just in tiem, too, for here is a quote about what happened in Cripple Creek: "In 1903 and 1904, one of the bloodiest strikes in the annals of labor started the decline of the (Cripple Creek) Gold Camp. Miners moved their families over night from the terror, and fear turned lose in the district"...
Finally the Slosson family came to the end of their travel at monrovia, California......On his arrival in Monrovia and for a while thereafter, Frank was associated with his brother, Charley, in the latter's real estate office on the main street in the center ot town..... Frank, however, had left the railway mail service in order to have his own independent business. Thus, after a time, he opened his own real estate office in Pasadena, nine miles west of Monrovia.....His first office was just north of the main street, close to a public park. Later he moved into a large, newly constructed office building on the main street, Colorado Avenue.
Frank soon became associated with business groups. He was a member of the Pasadena Board of Trade, which played an important part in the growth and development of the city. He was also a member, taking an active interest in the pasadena Realty Board. Meanwhile, in his residence town, always loyal to his political part, for a time he was president of the Monrovia-Duarte Democratic Club......
In 1918 came the great flu epidemic, one of the most disastrous of all time. And so it came about that on january 30, 1919, Frank Slosson - adventurer, developer, and father of six children - passed one, being laid to reast in Live Oak Cemetery in Monrovia.....
Nellie was a member of the WCTU, having seen woe and sorrow caused by liquor in the Colorado miners. Additionally, always of first interest was her church, which fortunately was within easy walking distance. For many years she had been a regular member, serving on various commitees as well. Now, on the east wall of that church she had fathfully served for a half century, is located a beautiful stained glass window, the "Moses" window, which was dedicated to the memory of Nellie Dye Slosson in a special ceremony.
Although Nellie, with her small frame, had appeared frail, nevertheless, she had a surprising amount of quick energy, with much endurance as well. She was also blessed with longevity, remaining active and mentally alert until just past her eighty-eighth birthday. Then she had a hip fracture, with complications from which she never recovered. And so, on August 20, 1953, she was called Home, with her buiral place being beside Frank in the Family plot in Live Oak Cemetery, Monrovia.

Frank married Nellie Miranda DYE on 10 Oct 1889 in Northwood, Worth County, Iowa. Nellie (daughter of Nelson Timberlake DYE and Martha Jane STONE) was born on 16 Aug 1865 in Wisconsin; died on 20 Aug 1953 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Live Oak Cemetery, Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Northwood, Worth Co., Iowa
• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Northwood, Worth Co., Iowa

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• Census: 1900, Living with parents in El Monte, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1920, Living with husband and mother in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1930, Living with husband and mother in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California

Arline married John Wilmer SNYDER on 20 Nov 1917 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California. John was born about 1896 in Pennsylvania, USA; died on 01 Nov 1939 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1900, Living with mother in El Monte, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1910, Living with mother in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1920, Living with mother in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California

Notes:

"George Slawson:An American Pioneer" by Harold D. Slosson - Daughter of Mary Slosson Stelson, calm, wise, and pleasant, she was the leader whom her many friends like most to follow.
Brought from Iowa to California by her mother about 1902, Jean started the first grade in the historic Orange Avenue School of Monrovia. Then the town's population was around 3000; by 1970 it had grown some ten tines to 30,000.
Possibly a little larger than some girls of the same age, she was attractive, wit even features, brown hair, hazel eyes, and a pleasant manner. While not really mechanical, nevertheless Jean early owned a bicycle which she rode over the unpaved streets and sidewalks of the town, Later, when a young lady, she enjoyed friving her Model-T Ford, called "Georgette."...
Jean, an excellent student, graduated from high school in 1914. But more education was required for her library careet. Thus she went for a year to Pomona College, following which she attended the University of California at Berkeley. After graduation there, she trained for a year in the Los Angeles Public Library School.
This schoolwork completed, Jean was immediately given a position in the Los Angeles Library, then occupying quarters on the top floors of the Metropolitan Building, on the northwest corner of Fifth and Broadway. She also did responsible work for various city branch libraries.
Jean had many friends in the library, her church, and other circles. One of these groups included John Angus Smith, a young Canadian of Scottish ancestry, who had served in World War I. Their friendship ripened into a romance, with their marriage taking place in Los Angeles on January 10, 1925.
Meanwhile, Jack, as he was called, helped out in church and community affairs while doing construction work. The young couple had many pleasant times tiwh Southland friends and relatives. To them on November 27, 1935. was born a son, Malcolm George.
Soon after this, however, the mother, Jean, passed away, leaving the father Jack, to care for their infant son. Assisting with his care and guidance were two devoted aunts, Annie Sith and Bella Cattermole.
After doing a hard day's work, when going to a meeting to help others, Jack passed away on march 5, 1952. both he and Jean are buried in the Slosson family plot in Live Oak Cemetery, Monrovia.

Alma married John Angus SMITH on 10 Jan 1925 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. John was born on 21 Jan 1895; died on 05 Mar 1952 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Colorado Springs, El Paso Co., Colorado
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1920, Living with mother in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
• Death: 15 Dec 1971, Los Angeles County, California

Notes:

"George Slawson: An American Pioneer" by Harold Dye Slosson - Frank Slosson's third daughter was the leader in whose memory a tree was planted beside her church....
Glaydice was a Monrovia High School leader. After graduation she followed her cousin, Jean, in the public library work. Next she attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she received high grades.
Her older sister, Jane, had married a doctor, Ernest Bashor. In this way Glaydice became acquainted with Ernest's brother, Horace, who, although a medical student during World War I, had been a cadel flyer. A romance developed, and on June 11, 1921, at Pasadena, Glaydice and Horace were married. Two Slosson sisters married two Bashor brothers, both doctors.
Horace had attended the University of Idaho, where he had been a member of the football team. Later he received a degree from the College of Osteopathic Physicans and Surgeons, Los Angeles. Afterwards he had an extensive practice, with his office on Wilshire Boulevard's Miracle Mile, then a prestigious professional center.....
Not only did Dr. Horace Bashor, always poised and relaxed, know medicine and the anatomy of man, but he also knew their minds as well. Thus his wise counsel was valued by his patients; it helped them - sometimes even withoutsurgery or medicine - in their struggle to regain health.
Horace helped the church and social causes; he had fraternal connections, and was a member of Kiwanis. Glaydice heped him at that time, being, for example, a member of the Women's Osteopathic Auxiliary.
Glaydice and Horace had two boys, Robert and Philip....
But when their boys were grown, Dr. Horace passed away at the age of sixty-five. In his memory, Glaydice established the Dr. Horace Bashor Memorial Library in the Silverlake Presbyterian Church. She was thereafter active in that church, being ordained an elder in 1962.....
Meanwhile, she continued service elsewhere, being a member of the P.E.O. and the Los Feliz Women's Club. Also she had been chairman of the board of management of the Hollywood YWCA.
In 1967 Glaydice was a passenger on the "Queen Mary" on its final gtrip from England around the Horn to the Pacific Coast of America.....
Near the end of 1971, Glaydice had been particularly busy. She retired one night, passing away peacefully on December 4, 1971. She is buried at Forest Lawn beside her mate and companion of many years, Dr. Horace Bashor.

Glaydice married Horace Arthur BASHOR on 11 Jun 1921 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California. Horace was born on 05 Jun 1889 in Washington; died on 19 Feb 1955 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1920, Living with mother in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California

Notes:

"George Slawson: An American Pioneer" by Harold D. Slosson - Frank Slosson's daughter, an artist and teacher, she was the mother ot twins - something new in the Slosson line....
Dorothy was a teacher. After graduation from Monrovia High School, she attended Pasadena's "Broadoaks," a well-considered school at that time. Her specialty was kindergarten work, and she had the patience and kindliness to properly start the little tots on their way through school....
From Monrovia, Dorothy went to Santa Paula, where she was a teacher. She made friends, joined a church, and helped out in community affairs.....Among the firends Dorothy made at that time was Clare Crawford. He was the son of Dr. John Crawford, pioneer Santa Paula physician and the first health official of that city. Clare was a citrus rancher, and, as it happened, had been a student at the University of Southern California where he had been a friend of the writer. The friendship of Dorothy and Clare ripened into a romance, and they were married on June 22, 1927.
The Crawford family started with twins, Donald and Dorothy. Next, they had another son, Jon....
But Dorothy had a critical illness, and after some time she passed away on August 2, 1961. After that, Clare remained close to the children, who were a great comfort to him....
Meanwhile, Clare, who had been in the Army Air Corps during World War I, joined the Pt. Hueneme Fire Department during World War II. As an old-timer in Santa Paula, he had many friends in his church and the local American Legion post. After being well past the biblical three score and ten, he too passed away on August 22, 1974.
Dorothy and Clare are buried together in the Santa Paula Cemetery.

Dorothy married Claire C. CRAWFORD on 22 Jun 1927 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California. Claire was born on 25 May 1899 in Missouri, USA; died on 22 Aug 1974 in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Colorado Springs, El Paso Co., Colorado
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California

Notes:

"George Slawson: An American Pioneer" by Harold D. Slosson - Frank Slosson's daughter Ruth, giver of gifts to the visitor, lived close by the Pacific Ocean, as had the early Slossons by the Atlantic Ocean.
In her early Colorado days - she was eleven when the family moved to california - Ruth had been of a slender build like her mother. A friendly girl, she was idolized by the next-door neighbors, the Trulls....
The neighborhood boys wre a rough lot, perhaps because some of their fathers were hard-rock miners in the nearby Cripple Creek gold camp. And when they had ensnared the writer (Harold Slosson) into their gang, it was Ruth who in a determined way had rescued her young brother fro the gaqng's domination.
After moving to Monrovia in 1903, Ruth entered the old Orange Avenue School. All classes from first through twelfth were then held in that one school. Going into the sixth grade at that time, Ruth in a sense broke ground for the other children who at intervals followed her up the grammer school ladder.
When Ruth reached sighteen, she became acquainted with a young mechanic Will E. Janicki, who then lived near downtown Los Angeles, where his folks were old-timers. Will owned a "flivver," as the Model-T Ford was then called. It was a fascination at that time, helping him, perhaps, in his courtship of Ruth. The two were united in marriage at Monrovia on June 6, 1910. They had one son, William E. Janicki, born December 18, 1923.
Will became a marine engineer. For a tmie he had a commercial boat used in trade along the lower California coast. he even went as far south as Panama. He was a good storyteller, too, men always being interested in his tales of Mexican ports, rough sailors, and stormy times out on the sea.
The Janickis had a pleasant retirement among friendly neighbors in North Long Beach. Ruth passed away Sept. 6, 1967, Will having passed away earlier in 1963. Both are buried at the Inglewood Cemetery, near Southwest Los Angeles.

Ruth married William E. JANICKI on 06 Jun 1910 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California. William was born on 06 Dec 1889; died on 18 Oct 1963 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1920, Living with mother in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1930, Living in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Occupation: 1930; Cashier
• Military Service: 10 Nov 1942; Enlisted - U.S. World War II Army

Notes:

"George Slawson: An American Pioneer" by Harold D. Slosson - Frank Slosson's second son, gifted with a good speaking voice and fine hand-writing, has been the family correspondent.
During school days honors came to Rallh. He was the leading man in his senior class play. In the pre-TV period, townspeople turned out generally to see the play, with local town publicity specially featuring it.
After high school, Ralph attened business college. At that time, in addition to the study of business fundamentals, good handwriting was stressed. However, the Spencerian style came to him, he is without doubt the best penman in the family.
Ralph's first position was with the First National Bank....this bankd subsequently became a branch of the Security-Pacific bank, the second largest bank in California.
Next, Ralph served the Monrovia Building & Loan Company, which eventually became the Brentwood Savings & Loan Assn. of Beverly Hills...He handled property in the Michilinda area near Huntington Drive. Now a shopping center is near there, with the Santa Anita Fashion Center being not far away.
Starting during high school days, Ralph became interested in youth work. Initially he taught a boys' Sunday School class, and for many years he helped the YMCA of that area. Additionally he had served the Boy Scouts in many important capacities.
During World War II, although older than many concerned, he had been with an air force unit in Florida.
Ralph helped his mother, Nellie Slosson, during her declining years. Now he lives in Monrovia with his wife, Gabrielle, who has been one of the leaders in the Monrovia Business & Professional Women's Club. Gifted with a fine voice, Garielle sang for many years in her church choir. She shared another talent by teaching French language students...

Ralph married Gertrude LEWIS [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Gabrielle TODD on 24 Jun 1958 in Nevada. Gabrielle was born on 30 May 1893; died in Jan 1977 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Jennie
• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Colorado Springs, El Paso Co., Colorado
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California

Notes:

"George Slawson: An American Pioneer" by Harold D. Slosson. Frank Slosson's second daughter, who earned a doctor's degree, and now lives in an historic adobe.
Jane was two years old when moved by her parents from Albert Lea to Colorado Springs. She was nine years old when they moved to California's San Gabriel Valley.
In Monrovia's schools, Jane's scholastic record was outstanding. In only three years she completed the regulation four-year high school course. Then she earned her degree at the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons.
In college days she became acquainted with a young student leader, Ernest Bashor. Since World War I had started, afte receiving his degree Ernest became a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps. These school-day friends were married in onrovia on June 8, 1918.
Ernest lived an active, helpful life, always in command of each undertaking, brightening difficulties with humorous anecdotes. A few of his attainments were: in the professional field he had been a founder and a membe of Monte Sano Hospital's board of directors; member of the board of directors of Blue Cross of Southern Californa; and a president of the Los Angeles City Health Commission. In fraternal affairs he was chairman of the endowment board for Masonic Homes. In the service club, Kiwanis he had been district governor and lieutenant-governor, and a trustee of Kiwanis International. He was a past president of the Breakfast Club, and had been commander of his American Legion Post.
Of particular interest to Dr. Ernest was helping youngsters in need, as in the McKinley Home for Boys at San Dimas. The "Bashor Cottage" now stands there to honor the Bashors' help.....
Early California history came into the Bashor's lives - in 1784 Jose Maria Verdugo was granted the San Rafael Rancho in what is now the Glendale area. Jose's blind daughter, Cataline Verdugo, lived in an adobe in a canyon where a gigantic oak grew. In more recent years, Dr. Bashor rescued that historic adobe from the subdivider's bulldozer. He then restored the adobe with park-like grounds around it, as the Bashors' family living place.
Finally, after a long, busy life, on Marc 1, 1969, Dr. Ernest Bashor passed away at age seventy-seven. Now Jane, with her many friends and family members paying her pleasant visits, still lives in the Catalina Verdugo adobe.....

Jane married Ernest George BASHOR on 08 Jun 1918 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California. Ernest was born about 1892 in Idaho; died on 01 Mar 1969 in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Army - World War I
• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Colorado Springs, El Paso Co., Colorado
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1920, Living with mother in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1930, Living in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California

Notes:

"George Slawson: An American Pioneer" by Harold Dye Slosson - While attending Monrovia High School, harold had worked on the ranches of that area during summer vacations to obtain needed money. he had even been a "teamster" - driving horses and mules over the Mojave Desert. His aim was to be a great rancher.....Obedient to both parents' wishes, and encouraged by his sister Jane, harold majored in chemistry, graduating from the University of Southern California in 1921.
An interruption came when he was in the army in World War I. During World War II he served in the California State Guard. Later he became a radiological monitor, and now is a fallout shelter analyst under the Department of Defense.
Over a forty-nine year period, harold was associated with the same chemical manufacturing company, now a national concern, the Filtrol Corporation. Early he had been their chief chemist, and served in other technical capacities. He is a professional engineer in chemical engineering, and a member emeritus of the American Chemical Society.
In 1924 he married Margaret Thayer, whose parents were old-timers in Los Angeles. Margaret, a graduate of the University of Clifornia at Berkeley, and the U.S.C. School of Library Science, was then employed in the Los Angeles Library. Their two children were Walter and Margery. Walter, a deputy public defender for Los Angeles County, was full of promise in the legal and social service fields. In May, 1959, when going to a conference, however, he was struck down in a traffic accident. On a public mission, the young defender lost his life.
The Harold Slossons were active in PTA, Red Cross, Boy Scouts, and other commnity affairs in their area. They are charter members of the Neighborhood Covenant Church, and also members of the San Gabriel Historical Society. On June 30, 1974, they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, with some 250 friends and relatives from five counties attending their reception.
Now retired in South San Gabriel, harold and Margaret live in a small home on an acre of land acquired in 1935, when it was country.....

Harold married Margaret Field THAYER on 30 Jun 1924 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. Margaret was born on 25 Aug 1899 in California; died on 19 Jan 1991 in Salinas, Monterey County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]