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| | Samuel Sloan Biography |
 | | SLOAN, SAMUEL (Dec. 25, 1817-Sept. 22, 1907), railroad executive, was a son of William and Elizabeth (Simpson) Sloan of Lisburn, County Down, Ireland. |
 | | Sloan's immediate job, as he saw it, was to make the Lackawanna more than a "coal road," serving a limited region. |
 | | Sloan was a member of the commission to raise troops in New York for the civil war, in this capacity being in friendly contact with President Lincoln, a friendship which was maintained until Mr. |
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