Background
Sloan was born on June 22, 1857 in Morning Sun, Ohio to Mary (Caldwell) and Dr. Richard E. Sloan. His family had moved to Ohio from South Carolina owing to their opposition to the secession movement and slavery. Sloan was educated in private and public schools and graduated from Monmouth College in 1877. Following graduation he taught in a private school for a year.
Near the time of his college graduation, one of Sloan's older brothers died of quick consumption. When he developed asthma and hay fever, his family became concerned and sent him to Denver, Colorado hoping the change of climate would provide relief to his symptoms. While in Denver, Sloan worked as a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News. He also worked at several mines near Breckenridge and Leadville, Colorado.
From Colorado, Sloan returned to Ohio and earned a law degree from the Cincinnati Law School in 1882. After graduation he and a friend, Louis H. Chalmers, travelled west, filling in for newspaper editors who wished to take time off from their duties. During the course of their journey they stopped in St Paul, Minnesota, Spokane, Washington, Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco, California.
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