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HAMPTON P. SLOANE. The subject of this sketch was born in Highland county, Ohio, May 10, 1824, and raised upon a farm. His father, James, was born in 1793, and his mother, Nancy, nee Pangburn, was a native of Kentucky, and both are of Scotch-Irish descent. His grandfather was a native of Ireland, and came to America before the Revolutionary War, and James Sloane was a participant of the War of 1812. Mr. Sloane received his education at Hillsboro Academy, Ohio, where he attended two years. He married January 27, 1848, Adaline E. Grandgirard, who was born in France, in October, 1882, and came to America when eighteen months old, residing in Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father engaged in mercantile pursuits. Her children are Judge John Sloane, William Sloane, editor of the Carthage Banner, and a child deceased. She was an educated lady and an efficient member of the Congregational Church. She died September 15, 1856. Mr. Sloane married the second time a Miss Delia Gripen, October 27, 1857, who was born in Oneida county, New York, September 24, 1836. Her children are: Charles, Addie, Samuel, Lincoln, Lydia, James, Nannie, and Bessie. Mrs. Sloane is a member of the Congregational Church, and Mr. Sloane is an active and efficient deacon. In 1850 he came to Rockford, Illinois, and engaged in farming, and in 1862 enlisted in the Seventy-fourth Illinois, as an enlisting officer, and was commissioned captain. Mr. Sloane lost his health by exposure in the service, and resigned. In 1863 he came to Cedar Falls, Iowa, in 1867 to Sedalia, and later to Johnson county, Missouri, and then to Jasper county, engaging in a mail route; also, owning a good farm of eighty acres. In 1879 Mr. Sloane became a citizen of Carthage, and has since been connected with the Banner. He has done much for both the religious welfare of all communities in which he has lived, as well as materially aiding the advancement of all enterprises of a public character in Jasper county, and commands the unqualified respect of the church and community.