Sloss, Joseph H
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 12, 1826, in Somerville, Ala. He was a member of the Illinois legislature in 1858. He returned to Alabama, and joined the confederate army, in which he served until the close of the war. He was elected mayor of Tuscumbia after the war, and continued in that office until 1870. He was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-second and forty-third congresses.
SLOSSON, MRS. ANNIE [TRUM- BULL], author, was born in Connecticut.
She is known as an entomologist whose specialty is the study of moths. She is the author of Aunt Liefy; Fishin' Jimmy; Seven Dreamers; The Heresy of Mehetabel Clark; Anna Malann; and The China Hunter's Club.