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JOHN A. SLOTBOON is a son of Garrett and Scena (Huytink) Slotboon, and was born in Holland, May 22, 1841. His paternal grandfather was also a native of Holland, where he lived and died. John Huytink (maternal grandfather) was likewise a native and life-long resident of Holland, and died there. His wife, after his death, came to America and died in Albany, this State, aged ninety years. Garrett J. Slotboon (father) was born in Holland, February 6, 1802, emigrated to America, spending his first winter in Albany, and came to this county in 1847, locating in Mina. Afterwards he came to Clymer about 1850, where he died September 6, 1885. He was a farmer by occupation, in politics was a republican, and in religion was a member of the Reformed church. While in Holland he had, in compliance with the laws of that country, served his time in the regular army. In 1832, he married Scena Huytink, a daughter of John Huytink, by whom he had five children, four of whom are living, all in this county; three of them in the town of Clymer.

John A. Slotboon was educated in the common schools of Clymer, this county, and began life as a farmer. He enlisted August 11, 1862, in Co. D, 112th regiment, N. Y. Vols., and served until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged June 8, 1865. He was promoted to corporal, and participated in the siege of Suffolk and the battle of Blackwater, siege of Charleston, capture of Ft. Wagner and bombardment of Ft. Sumter, went into Florida during the campaign there, thence to Bermuda Hundred, and was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va., June 1, 1864. In April, 1866, he entered the mercantile business at Clymer Hill, continuing in the same for about twenty-five years, and then moved to Clymer village, where he has been in business ever since, owning and running a first-class general store, and doing a large business. Politically he is a republican, and served as a justice of the peace of Clymer four years, declining a re-election, and has also served as supervisor of Clymer seven years.

John A. Slotboon was married on January 13, 1866, to Magdalene Kooman, a daughter of Peter Kooman, of Dutch extraction, but born near Antwerp, and emigrated to Buffalo, this State, in 1847, where he resided eleven years, and then came to this county, settling in Clymer, where he died January 6, 1879, aged seventy-three years. To Mr. and Mrs. Slotboon have been born five children: Sarah W., wife of Abram Beckrink, a gardener in Jamestown, near Falconer, they have one child, a son, Marvin Edward; William Leonard, who lives in Clymer, and is in business with his father; Ada Paulina, at home; one who died in infancy; and Lydia Louisa.