Harry E. SLOSSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Member of the merchangile firm of "Slosson Brothers & Co.,"
• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Baptism: 1855, First Presbyterian Church of Binghamton, New York
• Residence: 1872, Sabetha, Nemaha Co., Kansas
• Census: 1880, Living in Silver Cliff, Custer Co., Colorado
• Occupation: 1880; Mining
• Census: 1900, Living in Houston, Harris Co., Texas

Notes:

[Slosson 11-20-00 Greene.FTW]

Resided in Sabetha, Nemah Co., Kansas, where he was a member of the mercantile
firm of Slosson Bros. & Co. His partner is his brother Samuel.

History of Kansas by William G. Cutler
WM. B. SLOSSON, one of the pioneers of Albany, was born November 2, 1835, in Broome County, N. Y>. Settled at Albany, Nemaha County, Kan., in April 1857, and lived there and at Salem, Neb., until his final location at Sabetha in 1870 or '71. He married in March, 1860, in his and her native county, Miss Achsah L. Lilly. They have one child - Edwin E., born June 7, 1865, in Albany. Mr. and Mrs. Slosson have both been almost life-long Congregationalists. Mrs. Slosson, an active temperance and Sunday-school worker, occupied for years in Sabetha the position of president of the W. C. T. U., and superintendent of the Congregational Sunday-school of that place. Mr. Slosson opened the first store in December, 1861, in Albany, with a stock of goods brought from Salem, Neb., because of the fear of the "Free-state'' owners that they would be seized by the border ruffians if left in Salem. He was among the most prominent organizers of "Council No. 40, of the Union League of Albany," organized July 22, 1863, and prior to that had, with others of Albany and vicinity assisted many a runaway black to his freedom - once barely escaping an armed, drunken and maddened mob at Nebraska City, by persuading the Pro-slavery ferryman and securing passage across the Missouri for his party, including three escaping slaves. In 1872 he was appointed by Governor Osborn to a State office, Trustee of the Blind Asylum, and served the state in that capacity and as Trustee and Secretary of the Board for all the State Charitable Institutions for four years or until 1876. In 1882 he removed with his family to Leavenworth city, Kansas, where he now resides, and is connected with the Brown Medicine & Mfg. Co. of that city as its Vice-President and Advertising Manager. As an early settler, staunch Christian, temperance worker, active businessman, and fearless advocate of the right at all times and places, must W. B: Slosson ever be remembered.

William married Achsah Louise LILLY on 13 Mar 1860. Achsah (daughter of Orsamus LILLY and Louisa LILLY) was born on 18 Mar 1836 in Castle Creek, Broome Co., New York; died on 13 Oct 1906 in Castle Creek, Broome County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with father in Chenango, Broome Co., New York
• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Silver Cliff, Custer Co., Colorado
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Houston, Harris Co., New York

Notes:

Received from Diana Lineman

Note:
The Sabetha Herald of Sabetha,Kansas
----Thursday October 18, 1906----
..Mrs. Achsah Louise Lilly Slosson,
wife of W. B. Slosson, both of whom
have been long and well known by the
people of Albany and Sabetha, died of
heart failure at her childhood's home
near Castle Creek, Broome county, New
York, October 13, 1906.

In a lengthy obit in same newspaper--
....Mrs. W. B. Slosson Dead.....
Word received in Sabetha Saturday noon...
afflicted with heart trouble, suffering more
that usual the past six weeks or more. She
left her home in New York City..for Castle Creek..
to end her days and be buried in the old family
lot there--remains were interred by the side of
her parents Mr. and Mrs. Lilly.

Achsah Louise Lilly was born in Castle Creek,
March 18, 1836. There in the old family homestead
she met W. B. Slosson and married him.
..M/M Slosson came to Sabetha in 1860, or rather
they came to Albany, for there was then no Sabetha.
Through Mrs. Slosson's influence, the Brighams,
Alice West Lilly, Emery Lilly, the Rev. A. H. Lilly,
Henry Lilly and Mrs. Hutchinson, George H. Adams,
George F. Pugsley and family, Harvey Campbell,
Lyman B. Lilly, Mrs. William Graham, the Hall boys,
Albert West, Mrs. Rellis, Mrs. Benson, John Tyler and
John and Merrit McNary came also to Kansas to make their
homes.
.She lost two small children..buried in Albany cemetery.
.one remaining child is Dr. Edwin E. Slosson, editor of
the New York Independent..survived also by her husband
William B. Slosson, who helped so materially in the upbuilding of Sabetha and who was one of the early pioneers of Kansas whose worth has done so much to make Kansas a great state. Mr. and Mrs. Slosson left Sabetha in 1882 and moved to Leavenworth. After..several years they went to Houston Texas to live. Their goods are still stored in Houston. They have lived in New York about two years. ..regrets and sympathies.... end