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Sloan, Samuel G

educator, clergyman, was born July 12, 1864, in Fulton county, Ill. For many years he was engaged in educational work as a teacher in the public schools and as a college professor. He has attained success as a clergyman in the baptist church, and now fills a pastorate in Pratt, Kas.

SLOANE, JAMES RENWICK WILSON, educator, college president, was born May 29, 1823, in Topsham, Vt. He was president of Richmond college, Ohio, in 1848- 50; of Geneva college, in the same state, in 1851-56; and professor of systematic theology and homiletics in Alleghany Theological seminary from 1868 till his death. He died March 6, 1886, in Alleghany City, Pa.

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