Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-27 | Page 8 | Roberts Sloan, Pioneer, Dies

I ROBERT SLOAN h Life Lie Passes in Taxi onWay on Way W to Hospital k CAREER IS COLORFUL I. I S 'S S Aa Vas Vas' ell Known i in Busin Busi- Busi vl n II ness and Poli Politics ics 1 V t S. S One of ot the most colorful chara characters characters char char- a t rs to ti illumine the pages o of ot I l 1 sines sine's and social history ry of ot Salt Lake Jake City during the past century ter-century passed from the scene i Sunday 1 when Robert W. W Sloan ln S dle died dle Mr fr Sloan who attained his sev sev- first enty-first on December 24 breathed his last ast alone In a taxicab on the way ay fo io the tire Holy Hob HolyCross HolyCross Cross hospital Against the ad adIce advice ad ad- vice Ice of friends he had gone to J. J Logan Ogan on Christmas day to visit the graves of two sons He Ic was vas not well eIl when he ho went and the exposure and Journey journe further weakS weak weak- S ened ened him Sunday morning be becoming becoming becoming be- be coming ill m. he summoned a taxi cah cab to take him hospital lIe He Is leo survived ed by his widow Judith Edith Thero TI-rero Sloan In San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco a son R. R T. T 1 Sloan In InS S Provo Pro two brothers E. E L. L Sloan and WaSter Walter J. J Sloan of Salt I. I Lake e S and a sister Miss Louise Sloan I of Salt Lake S In mt formal announcements official official cial listings and the like the name of Robert V W. Sloan appeared but all till his hundreds of friends ac ac- ac too too called called him Bob from fron youth to old age just because It It was the most natural thing In the world to do LIFE ACTIVE About 20 years years ago Mr Sloan began to make his distinctive mark markon on Salt SaIt Lake City affairs The agency company compan founded by him became a prosperous Institution dealing In Iii a wide varlet variety of in insurance In- In flurance and allied lines Unes This I followed a long period of intense activity dating almost from the time of his Ilis arrival here with his parents In 1863 from Ireland The lather father Edward r L. L Sloan founded the Salt Lake Herald a Journal which under tinder the Sloans began a career which left loft it Its Impress on the life 0 of o the elt city and disappeared p ared only a fp few short years a ago o. o On Ort the Herald young oung Bob worked many years ears as a printer rind find reporter and later lahr as business bus busi ness less manager Growing In Influence ence he took an active Interest in Sn polities politics and served one term In the state legislature During political campaigns he was an eloQuent eloquent elo elo- do- do quent and forceful speaker on Is Is- Fues ues which claimed attention in inthe the formative years earll of During the hectic campaigns of the day he served two years years 5 97 97 as state chairman of the democratic party part During the years vears ears he was connected with his father ather as a printer the first city directory came from the press of ot tire Sloans in the and later In 1884 Edward L. L Sloan issued the first complete directory of Ifs the city WAS W WIDELY DELY KNOWN F From m his period of political activIty activity ac- ac and during the succeeding eight ight or or ten years ears of business prosperity e ety ty Bob Sloan was one of th the most widely known in the olty cIty In Utah for that matter for his is Interests were extensive He j rose yose high In the ranks of good fellowship and was perhaps one onel l of ot the nearest approaches to that Ical character a typical I man about town ever known mown In Salt Lake About six or seven years rears ago Mr l Sloans Sloan's health began to fall fail and nd with it failed naturally the te vitality he Injected ted Into his busl busl- ness ness' Still with a fair fortune fortune fortune for for- tune he went Into partial retirement retire retire- ment and removed to San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco ciaco With him went his third wife and Iving widow well mown In rio Salt TAke Lake as a vocalist t His first wife ite was Nettle fettle ettie Thatcher S who obtained a divorce from rom him A second matrimonial venture was matrimOnial short lived lve-d. F Funeral servi services services' eS' eS will be held In S. S Salt Lake at a date and time to toV tobe tobe V be announced later and burial will willbe S be In itt Logan