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Edward Lennox Sloan

November 9, 1830–August 2, 1874

1 Born at Conlig, County Down, Ireland; son of Mary Lennox and John Sloan. 2 Baptized in Ireland, before 1848. 3 Married Mary Elizabeth Wallace, 1851; participated in plural marriage. 4 Immigrated to the United States aboard the Amazon and migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1863. 5 Journalist and writer associated with the Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star, Deseret News, and Daily Telegraph; founder and editor of the Salt Lake Herald. 6 Encouraged the establishment of the Woman’s Exponent, founded in 1872. 7 Died at Salt Lake City. 8 (See Document 3.1, 3.21)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah (Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons, 1904), 4:623. “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Utah Division of State History (https://ushpo.utah.gov/cemetery, accessed May 2023), Edward Lenox [sic] Sloan.

  2. [2] Whitney, History of Utah, 4:623. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 2014), Edward Lennox Sloan L648-K1J.

  3. [3] Whitney, History of Utah, 4:623.

  4. [4] Whitney, History of Utah, 4:623. “Family Tree,” database, Edward Lennox Sloan.

  5. [5] “Saints by Sea,” database, 1840–1932, Saints by Sea (https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu, accessed May 2023), Edward L. Sloan; extracted from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Immigration Index CD (2000). “Edward Lennox Sloan,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.

  6. [6] Whitney, History of Utah, 4:622–624.

  7. [7] Ibid., 624.

  8. [8] “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Edward Lenox Sloan.