California Biographies
Sloper, Willard

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Sloper, Willard. Was born in Meigs county, Ohio, on August 12, 1825. At eleven
years of age his parents moved to Scott county, Iowa. On April 2, 1854, he
married Mary Jones Randall, at the residence of her parents in Buchanan county,
Iowa. In 1854 he emigrated across the plains with ox-teams, being six months in
making the trip, and attended by many hardships. They first located near Shasta
City, Shasta county, California, where Mr. Sloper kept a boarding house. In
1862-3 he was engaged in mining in Nevada, and in 1864 he came to Petaluma,
where he followed contracting and building until 1876, since which time he has
been engaged in the planing-mill business. His living children are: Williard,
born April 11, 1869, and Hulda, born May 13, 1873. He has four children
deceased, and buried in Shasta county.

Source: HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY, Alley, Bowen & Co. 1880