Researching William Sloan
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2820 people with the Sloan surname? In that year Sloan was ranked number 1412 for popularity in the UK. |
The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Sloan on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Sloan and the Sloan Family History
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William Sloan (politician)
William Sloan (September 10, 1867 – March 2, 1928) was a Canadian businessman and Liberal politician. He was Member of Parliament for Comox-Atlin from 1904 until 1909, when he resigned to provide a seat for William Templeman.
Born in Wingham, Ontario, Sloan continued to be active in provincial politics, serving as MLA for Nanaimo from 1916 until his death in 1928. A minister in the Liberal cabinets of the time, Sloan held the posts of Minister of Mines, Commissioner of Fisheries, Clerk of the Executive Council, and Provincial Secretary.
His son Gordon became a member of the provincial assembly and served in the province's cabinet and in the B.C. Court of Appeal.
Source: William Sloan (politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Glenn Sloan
William Glenn Sloan (August 21, 1888 - August 13, 1987) was an American inventor and scientist who was co-author of Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program to dam the upper Missouri River.
Sloan was born in Paris, Illinois. His father, a Presbyterian minister moved to Helena, Montana in 1910. He graduated from Montana State College with a bachelor of science in civil engineering in 1910.
He joined the United States Department of Agriculture and a drainage engineer in Idaho in 1910. During World War I he was a lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers.
After the war, he was a private consultant on irrigation engineering until 1936, when he joined United States Bureau of Reclamation first in the Rio Grande Valley.
In 1943 he was named Regional Director of the Billings, Montana Reclamation office when he proposed using water from proposed dams on the Missouri River for of irrigation.
The plan was to be in conjunction with the United States Army Corps of Engineers proposed by Lewis A. Pick to build dams on Missouri to alleviate flooding and improve navigation (known as the "Pick Plan")
The two plans which became known as the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program were initially enacted in the Flood Control Act of 1944. It was to result in a series of dams on Upper Missouri as well as its tributaries which among other things generate 2.5 million kilowatts of electricity.
Among his other accomplishment is a patent on the airlift pump
Source: William Glenn Sloan, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Sloan
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