Weekly journal-miner., 1909-04-14

To be Territorial secretary, and John
 H. Campbell for associate justice of
 Arizona.
 Immediately after the nominations
 Judge Sloan started for New York.
 He will remain there a day or two and
 then start for Prescott, accompanied
 by J. c. Adams of Phoenix. I. T.
 Stoddard says these appointments were
 the hest possible and will give emi-
 nent satisfaction.
 Judge Richard E. Sloan, Arizona 's next governor, is one of the most
 conspicuous figures in the history of Jurisprudence in Arizona. Endowed
 by nature with strong mental quail
 ties, a keen. logical power of resolv
 ing knotty problems of law, he is well adapted to his chosen field of endeav-
 or. His career at the bar has been
 one of the greatest honor, and for many years he has been known far and
 wide for his sterling integrity and
 fearless loyalty to his convictions of
 right and justice.
 The patriotic and worthy family
 represented by Judge Sloan is an old and honored one Tn the United States
 It originated in the northern part of
 Ireland several generations ago, and our subjects great-grandfather, Rich ard Sloan, was the founder of the line
 in America. Settling in South Caro- lima, his son Richard, and grandson
 Richard, in the direct line of descent, were there born and dwelt. His son
 Richard Sloan was a participant in the Revolutionary War, and spent his life upon a South Carolina plantation, and his son, in turn, Richard Sloan, held q captaincy in the war of 1872 Cap tain Sloan was a staunch Presbyterian ssnd was opposed to the slavery sys- tenn, for which reason he joined colony and located some land in Preble county, Ohio, there passing the rest of ! his life.
 The parents of Judge Sloan are Dr. i Richard and Mary (CaldwelD Sloan, {, the former born in South Carolina, and the latter near Hamilton, Ohio, though her father, Nathan Caldwell, also was a native of South Carolina. She is of Scotch-Irish extraction, and aer grandfather, Capt. William CaId- well, of the state just mentioned, and q planter of prominence, held com mission as an officer in the war for independence. He died in Ohio. Nath- an Caldwell was one of the pioneers of the Buckeye State and owned a farm adjacent to Hamilton. He was accidentally drowned in the Miami River. !,
 Dr. Richard Sloan was graduated in the Ohio Medical College at Cincin- nati and for many years was actively engaged in practice at Preble county, Ohio. A strong abolitionist, he was . identified with the Whig party until , the Republicans were organized, when he joined their ranks. MT. Sloan had ; been previously married, and his son by that union, Joseph G., served in the 1 Forty-seventh Ohio volunteers during ( che Civil war and now resides in l Pawnee City, Neb. <;
 Judge Sloan was born on the farm near Oxford, Ohio, June 9, 1857, and was reared in that state. An apt stu { dent, he pursued a course in Mon- mouth College, where he was graduat- I'd with the degree of Bachelor of ( Arts in 1877, and later the degree of c Master of Arts was bestowed upon C him. For about a year he taught in school and at that time took up legal studies under the super C vision of Mir. James, of Hamilton, C Ohio. In 1878 he went to Denver, $ Colo, where he continued his research | es in legal lore, also being employed 1 on the Rocky Mountain News" as ] journalist. In 1879 ne went to Lead S vile, and later became a temporary V resident of the mining camp of Remaining in that To- { ,ality until January, 1882, he then V concluded to return to the law. a
 Matriculating in the Cincinnati II .Ohio) Law College, he was graduated f here in 1884 and started on an ex- I ended trip through the west and h northwest. In the autumn ne located t Il Phoenix, Ariz., and remained there t