WILLIAM B. SLOCUM, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Lancaster; was born Sept. 2, 1822, in Saratoga Co., N. Y.; son of Job and Lydia (Bolt) Slocum, of Vermont; came to Grant Co. in 1843; after a short residence at Cassville, came to Waterloo and ran a cabinet-shop three years; from there to a farm in Bloomington; thence to Rice Co., Minn., and returned to Bloomington, and to his present location in 1868; his father died in 1860, aged 74, and his mother in February, 1880, 90 years of age. He was married Nov. 28, 1849, by Elder Chapin (Baptist), to Sarah Jane, daughter of Abner and Emma (Green) Beardsley; they have six children - Charles H., born Sept. 12, 1850, who married Sarah Harper, of Orient, Iowa; they have two children - Walter and Jennie; Alice E., born July 26, 1852, wife of E. N. Fancher, lumber dealer of Iowa; they have two children - Mabel and an infant; Grace L., born March 13, 1854, teaching school in District No. 2, Potosi; Clara L., born July 26, 1856; Wilfried J., born July 3, 1858; Mary E., born Dec. 8, 1865. Mr. S. is a Republican and a Congregationalist. He has been several years Town Clerk, Chairman and Justice of the Peace. Owns 170 acres of land.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.