“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


GEORGE W. SLOAN, born in Farmington, this county, Jan. 24, 1850; 
graduated from the Michigan University at Ann Arbor in 1873; since he 
was 17 years of age, Mr. Sloan has been prominently identified with the 
educational interests of the State, particularly with the schools of 
Jefferson and Dodge Cos.; he taught in the public schools of these 
counties during the winter terms for six years prior to entering college; 
since then, he was for nearly two years Principal of the Juneau Graded 
School; one year Principal at Milford, and taught one term at Waterloo; 
in connection with his other school work, and during vacations for the 
last ten years, Mr. Sloan has given much attention to penmanship 
classes; he read law in the office of Enos & Hall, of Watertown, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1875; he is a son of Patrick and Ann (Killoy) 
Sloan, who located on Sec. 1, in Farmington, in 1846; they removed to 
Sec. 22, Watertown Township, in 1853, and still reside there.


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