Mary STEELE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with husband in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Census: 1855, Living with husband in Maine, Broome Co., New York

Mary married Anson Seymour SLOSSON on 16 Oct 1827 in Maine, Broome County, New York. Anson (son of Nathaniel SLOSSON, II and Eunice SISSON) was born on 01 Oct 1796 in Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA; died on 10 Mar 1861 in Maine, Broome County, New York; was buried in Maine Cemetery, Maine, Broome Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Carpenter and Joiner
• Military Service: 2nd Lieut. Co. G, 3rd Kansas Infantry, (War of 1861)
• Baptism: 18 Apr 1830, Congregational Church of Maine, New York
• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Occupation: 1850; Farmer
• Residence: 1872, Removed to Sabetha, Nemaha Co., Kansas
• Census: 1880, Living in Rock Creek, Nemaha Co., Kansas
• Occupation: 1880; Farmer

Notes:

Nathaniel married April 1884 in Frankfort, Kansas to Mrs. Emily Adams.

Nathaniel married Caroline Jane DEAN on 10 Jan 1856 in New York, USA. Caroline (daughter of Edward DEAN and Philena MAREAN) was born on 08 Apr 1836 in Condor, New York; died on 05 Apr 1883 in Albany, Nemaha Co., Kansas; was buried in Albany, Nemaha Co., Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

• Baptism: 1832, Congregational Church of Maine, New York
• Baptism: 08 Apr 1832, Congregational Church of Maine, New York
• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Census: 1855, Living with parents in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Census: 1870, Living with husband in Rock Creek, Nemaha Co., Kansas
• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Rock Creek, Nemaha Co., Kansas
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Rock Creek, Nemaha Co., Kansas
• Census: 1910, Living in Sabetha, Nemaha Co., Kansas

Nancy married John Livingston GRAHAM on 07 Apr 1853 in Maine, Broome County, New York. John (son of John L. GRAHAM and Hannah GEE) was born on 27 May 1832 in Richford, Tioga Co., New York; died on 19 Sep 1863 in Killed in the battle of Chickamauga, Tenn.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nancy married Eli F. BOUTON on 18 Mar 1868. Eli (son of Nathan BOUTON and Maria Mary GEE) was born on 08 Apr 1833 in Virgil, Cortland Co., New York; died on 3 Nov 1905; was buried in Albany Cemetery, Sabetha, Nemaha Co., Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Unmarried
• Occupation: Member of the mercantile firm of "Slosson Brothers & Co.,"
• Occupation: trader
• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Military Service: 1862; Military roll for the Town of Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Census: 1880, Living in Rock Creek, Nemaha Co., Kansas
• Census: 1900, Living in Rock Creek Twp., Nemaha County, Kansas
• Occupation: 1900; Real Estate Agt.

Notes:

History of Kansas by William G. Cutler

SAMUEL SLOSSON, of Slosson Bros., was born in 1837, in Broome County, N. Y.; reared on a farm and came thence, in 1863, to Albany, Kan., associating with his brother, W. B. Slosson, who had located there as early as 1858. The brothers were prominent and prosperous merchants here until 1870, when they "packed up bag and baggage" and came to Sabetha, building the east part of the "Red Front" block. Samuel Slosson was the first station agent at this point, serving about a year. About this time the brothers built the warehouse now known as the Price elevator, and continued in the mercantile and grain business. In 1881 the "Red Front" block was nearly trebled in size, its present dimensions being 64x70 feet. Mr. Slosson married in Salem, Neb., in 1875, Miss Emma S., daughter of Dr. J. R Brooke, a native of Philadelphia, who brought his family to Salem in 1860. Mrs. Slosson was born in Ohio, and educated in the Nebraska State Normal School, from which she graduated in 1871. She enjoys the honor of being the only lady physician in Nemaha County, having spent 1874-'75 in the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, from which institution she graduated with full honors in 1875. She relates with evident interest, that during the severe winter of 1880-'81 "01d Doctor Irwin" and herself were the only practitioners in Sabetha, the others, in consequence of the State Registration Law, having either quit practice or resumed study in order the secure the required diplomas. Mr. and Mrs. Slosson have two sons - Frank S. and John Brooke, both born in Sabetha.

Samuel married Emily Susanna BROOKE on 15 Sep 1875 in Salem, Richardson County, Nebraska. Emily was born on 15 Jul 1851 in Columbus, Ohio; died on 15 Mar 1938 in Albany, Nemaha Co., Kansas; was buried in Albany Cemetery, Nemaha Co., Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Living with parents in Rock Creek, Nemaha, Kansas

Arthur married Mamie HAINES on 03 Dec 1901 in Sabetha, Kansas. Mamie was born on 23 Jan 1871; died on 13 Dec 1940 in Independence, kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Living with parents in Silver Cliff, Custer Co., Colorado
• Census: 1900, Living in Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming
• Occupation: 1900; Professor - University
• Census: 1910, Living in Manhatten, New York Co., New York
• Census: 1920, Living in Manhatten, New York Co., New York
• Occupation: 1920; Editor - Magazine plant

Notes:

Post-em note received by Diana Lineman

Note:
Non-relative, but have this marriage info from The Sabetha Herald of Sabetha,Kansas of Friday August 14, 1891:

SLOSSON-PRESTON.---At Centralia,KS Wednesday morning
August 12, 1891 by Rev. A. C. Hogbin, assisted by
Rev. A. S. Bush, Mr. Edwin E. slosson and Miss May Preston. ..among the best known in Sabetha, the bridegroom being a native of the vicinity and having lived here until a few years ago, the bride having taught one year as assistant principal in the Sabetha high school.... Festivities of the day were...wedding breakfast at the home of bride's mother, Mrs. M. G. Preston..at nine o'clock a.m. ...wedding..conducted by Rev. A. C. Hogbin, brother-in-law of the bride...Bryant Preston..best man... ...carriages were taken for Seneca at which piont the cars were boarded for Laramie, Wyoming, where the bridegroom has lately been installed as professor in the state University, where will be their home.

Among the guests....M/M C. L. Sherwood, M/M F. E. Graham,
M/M Lyman Lilly and children, M/M Sam Slosson and children, Mrs. E. F. Bouton, Miss Rosa Bouton, Mrs. Emily Slosson, Foster Lilly, Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Hogbin, and M/M W. B. Slosson were present from New Birmingham, Texas (The W.B. Slosson's were instrumental in establishing that new city-referred to as a "boom".)

See the following:
1900 Laramie WY census ED 7
1910 Manhattan NY census ED 721
WW I Registration of Preston W Slosson
1920 Manhattan NY census ED 956
1930 Ann Arbor MI census

end

From: "Who's Who In America":

SLOSSON, Edwin Emery, editor; b. Albany, Kan., June 7, 1865; s. William B. and Louise (Lilly) S.; B.S. U. of Kan., 1890, M.S. 1892; Ph.D., U. of Chicago, 1902; m. May Preston (Ph.D., Cornell), of Centralia, Kan., Aug. 12, 1891. Prof. chemistry, U. of Wyo., and chemist, Wyo. Agrl. Expt. Sta., 1891-1903; Lit. editor The Independent, 1903-20; dir. of Science Service. Fellow A.A.A.S.; mem. Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Washington Acaad. Sciences. Clubs: Authors (New York) Cosmos (Washington). Author: Great American Universities, 1910; Major Prophets of Today, 1914; Six Major Prophets, 1917; Creative Chemistry, 1919; Easy Lessons in Einstein, 1920; The American Spirit in Education, 1921; Plots and Personalities, 1922; Chats on Science, 1923. Home: 1739 Lanier Pl. Office: 1115 Conn. Av., Washington, D.C.

Name:
Edwin Emery Slosson (7 June 1865 - 15 October 1929) was an American magazine editor, author, journalist and chemist. He was the first head of Science Service, and a notable popularizer of science.

Family background and education

Edwin Emery Slosson was born in Albany, Kansas, the son of William Butler Slosson and his wife, the former Achsah Louise Lilly. His parents were pioneers who had moved from New York State to Kansas in 1857. William Slosson ran the first general store in Albany. A supporter of free state status for Kansas, he helped to organize a branch of the Underground Railroad and ran a "station" where escaping slaves were sheltered.[1][2]

Edwin Slosson attended Leavenworth High School for three years and travelled in Europe before entering the University of Kansas. He majored in chemistry and was a member of both Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa.[3] After obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in 1890, he remained at the University of Kansas as a graduate student, studying chemistry, physics, geology and psychology. He was awarded a Master of Science degree in 1892.[4] Slosson was offered a fellowship in psychology at Clark University, but chose instead to accept a position as Assistant Professor of chemistry at the University of Wyoming because it paid well enough to allow him to marry.[5] He married May Gorslin Preston at Centralia, Kansas on August 12, 1891.[4]

University of Wyoming

From 1891 to 1903 Edwin Slosson lived in Laramie, Wyoming, where he taught chemistry at the University of Wyoming and carried out chemical research at the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station, which was associated with the University. He also acted as state chemist. His main areas of research were alkali in Wyoming soils and petroleum. His observations on these and other subjects, including food adulteration and the fuel value of prepared cereals, were published in numerous bulletins of the Experiment Station.[6][7] He participated as a special demonstrator in chemistry at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.[3]

Slosson taught all the chemistry courses at the University of Wyoming and taught popular extension courses in chemistry to community members. He also taught a course in experimental psychology and lectured on photography to the local Camera Club. During the summer vacations he studied organic chemistry at the University of Chicago, working under Julius Stieglitz and John Nef. He completed his doctoral dissertation and was awarded his Ph.D. degree magna cum laude in 1902.[3][8]

The Independent

While living in Laramie, Slosson had contributed articles to The Independent, a weekly magazine published in New York City. After his doctoral studies, he spent the summer of 1903 in New York, working as an unpaid assistant to Hamilton Holt, the magazine's editor and publisher. He returned to Laramie in the fall, but when Holt offered him the position of literary editor on The Independent he accepted the offer and moved with his family to New York in 1904.[3]

He was connected with The Independent until 1920 as literary or managing editor and contributor.[9] He wrote many articles for the magazine and his journalism formed the basis for several books. On behalf of the magazine, he travelled around the United States visiting universities and visited Europe to interview leading philosophers and writers, including Henri Bergson, H.G. Wells, and Ernst Haeckel. The resulting articles were collected and published as Great American Universities (1910), Major Prophets of Today (1914) and Six Major Prophets (1916).[1][5]

His many articles for The Independent about scientific topics won him a reputation as a leading popularizer of science. His book Creative Chemistry, published in 1919, was a collection of articles about industrial applications of chemistry. It was his most successful publication and became a bestseller, with 200,000 copies sold by 1929.[5] It was still being used in high school and college chemistry courses in the early 1940s.[3] In 1920 he published another collection, Easy Lessons in Einstein, explaining the theory of relativity to a non-scientific audience. From 1912 to 1920 he taught a course on physical science for journalists at the Pulitzer School of Journalism.[5]

Science Service

In 1920, the biologist William Emerson Ritter invited Slosson to become the first head of Science Service, which was being organized by Ritter and the newspaper publisher E.W. Scripps with the aim of improving the general public's understanding of science by providing scientific news to daily newspapers.[10] Slosson accepted Ritter's job offer, and in January 1921 he moved to Washington, D.C., where Science Service's offices were located in the National Research Council building.[11]
Slosson, whose official title at Science Service was Editor, was responsible for organizing and staffing the agency. His initial efforts were concentrated on promoting and developing science journalism by the means of a weekly syndicated news service called Science News Bulletin.

Slosson described Science Service as "a sort of liaison officer between scientific circles and the outside world".[12]Science News Bulletin was well received and in September 1922 it began to be issued to newspapers and magazines daily rather than weekly.[10] Also in 1922, Science Service started publishing Science News Letter, a weekly magazine for sale to individuals.

Watson Davis, an engineer at the National Bureau of Standards and part-time science journalist who had been submitting articles to Science News Bulletin since it was established, became managing editor of Science Service in January 1923.[11] Davis's assistance and the growing success of the agency allowed Slosson to devote more of his time to writing, lecturing and travelling.[1] He contributed many articles to Science News Letter and other magazines including Collier's Weekly, and published five more books during the last decade of his life. He made his first radio broadcast at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in 1924, and in June of that year Science Service collaborated with the National Research Council to establish a weekly series called Science News of the Week. These radio broadcasts featured scientists talking about their work. Slosson also travelled extensively as a news correspondent for Science Service, in 1923 joining an expedition by astronomers to Mount Wilson Observatory in California to observe a solar eclipse.[11]

When Slosson died of heart disease on October 15, 1929 in Washington, he was "easily the outstanding interpreter of sciences to the non-technical public", according to the Dictionary of American Biography.[4]

Edwin married May Genevieve PRESTON on 12 Aug 1891 in Centralia, Kansas. May (daughter of Levi C. PRESTON and Mary GORSLINE) was born on 10 Sep 1858 in New York, USA; died on 26 Nov 1943 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1855, Living with mother in Maine, Broome Co., New York
• Census: 1870, Living with mother and step-father in Rock Creek, Nemaha Co., New Yorka
• Census: 1880, Living with mother and step-father in Rock Creek, Nemaha Co., New Yorka

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Living with mother and step-father in Rock Creek, Nemaha Co., New Yorka
• Census: 1880, Living with mother and step-father in Rock Creek, Nemaha Co., New Yorka

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Living with parents in Rock Creek, Nemaha Co., Kansas
• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Rock Creek, Nemaha Co., Kansas
• Census: 1910, Living with mother in Sabetha, Nemaha Co., Kansas

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Not listed in the 1930 Census - wife listed as widow
• Birth: 04 Aug 1887, Sabetha, Kansas
• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Rock Creek Twp., Nemaha County, Kansas
• Occupation: 1900; Physician
• Occupation: 1918; Manager of Coal Mine Company
• Residence: 1918, South Dakota
• Census: 1920, Living in Aberdeen, Brown Co., South Dakota
• Occupation: 1920; Manager of Coal Mine Company

John married Daisy L. OFFUTT in Sep 1903 in Morrill, Kansas, and was divorced before 1936. Daisy was born on 16 Aug 1885 in Kansas; died on 20 Feb 1936 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Eleanor Margaret PORTER on 15 Oct 1928 in Clear Lake, South Dakota. Eleanor was born about 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Tall, Blue eyes, Brown hair
• Census: 1880, Living with parents in Rock Creek, Nemaha Co., Kansas
• Occupation: 1918; Real Estate Broker - Robert White & Co.
• Residence: 11 Sep 1918, 250 Woodlawn Ave., New Trier Twps. Glencoe, Cook Co., Illinois
• Census: 1930, Living in New Trier Twp, Glencoe, Cook Co., Illinois
• Occupation: 1930; Real Estate Broker

Notes:

Received from Post-em from Diana Lineman

Non-relative. Have marriage notice from the Sabetha Herald of Sabetha,Nemaha county,KS Thursday July 30, 1903:

---SLOSSON-GARDINER.
Washington Girl Married at Evansville
(from Washington,Indiana Gazette)
..A surprise wedding was scored on their relatives and
friends Monday by Miss Sue A. Gardiner of this city and
Frank Slosson of Chicago. Their engagement had been
announced but relatives thought the wedding would not
take place for some time. The young people decided to surprise their friends, however, and went to Evansville Monday and were married at three o'clock Monday afternoon at the M. E. parsonage. Their relatives were then notified and announcement made that they would arrive in the city this evening at 6:30 o'clock. ..The bride is the pretty daughter of Judge W. R. Gardiner and wife and is very prominent in certain society circles of this city. The groom is with the Northern Pacific railroad as a land agent and for several months has been located in Southern Indiana territory. He made his head- quarters hee and made many friends. He is an excellent young man and will make a good husband. They have the best wishes of all. end

Frank married Sue A. GARDINER on 30 Jul 1903 in Evansville, Indiana. Sue was born on 08 Nov 1878 in Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Rock Creek Twp., Nemaha County, Kansas

Mary married Joseph KOFFEND, Jr. in 1915 in Oberlin, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Ernest Edwin BOYS [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Living with parents in laramie, Albany Co., Wyoming
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Manhattan, New York Co., New York
• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Manhattan, New York Co., New York
• Census: 1930, Living in Ann Harbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan
• Occupation: 1930; Teacher - University

Notes:

Democratic candidate for U.S. Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1948. Professor of History at the University of Michigan, author of history textbooks. body donated to the University of Michigan.

From "Who's Who in America":
SLOSSON, Preston William, authro; b. Loramie, Wyo., Sept. 2, 1892; s. Edwin Emery and May (Preston) S.; B.S., Columbia, 1912, M.A., 1913, Ph.D., 1916; unmarried. Asst. in history, Columbia, 1913-17; editorial staff New York Independent, 1917; with Dept. of State, 1917-18;asst. librarian Am. Commn. to Negotiate Peace, 1918-19; lit. editor New York Independent, 1920-21; Instr. history, 1921-23; asst. prof., 1923- U. of Mich., Mem. Phi Beta Kappa. "Wilson Democrat". Unitarian, Club; Aughros (New York). Author: Fated or Free, 1914; The Decline of the Chartit Movement, 1916. Home: Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Preston married Lucy Chase DENNY on 21 Jun 1927 in Richmind, Virginia. Lucy (daughter of Bishop Collins DENNY and Lucy Chase CHAPMAN) was born on 21 Jan 1893; died in Aug 1974 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Living with parents in laramie, Albany Co., Wyoming

Virginia married Ralph H. GRANGER, Jr. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Navy- World War II
• Birth: Abt 1905, South Dakota
• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Aberdeen, Brown Co., South Dakota
• Census: 1930, Living with mother in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minnesota

Family/Spouse: Ruth Delores RISBERG. Ruth was born on 31 Dec 1913; died in Jul 1978 in Pompano Beach, Broward County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: R.W SCHUTTENHELM. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Laura married Graeme SMITH [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Army Air Corps - World War II

Family/Spouse: Barbara ALLEN. Barbara was born on 14 Dec 1920; died on 08 Feb 2006 in West Linn, Clackamas County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Martin Harman BRIDGES [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]