Junius R. Sloan papers
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Sloan, Junius R., 1827-1900
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American portrait and landscape painter Junius Sloan was born on March 10, 1827, in Kingsville, Ohio. His parents were Drusilla Luce, a maker of straw bonnets, and Seymour Sloan, a blacksmith and toolmaker; the couple had eight children, of whom Junius was the second born. For several years, he worked as an itinerant painter of portraits, signs, and houses. Even after he married Sara Spencer (daughter of Platt R. Spencer, founder of the Spencerian method of penmanship), he continued to be on the...
