page_title: Henry T. Sloane
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Henry T. Sloane / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Designed by Charles C. Haight, the laboratory was completed in 1912. It is located at 217 Prospect Street. Yale University, New Haven, CT.
context_page_description: Henry Thompson Sloane was an American businessman during the Gilded Age.
context_section_description: Beginning at the age of fifteen, Sloane started working for the family carpet and furniture firm which was started by his father in 1843.  In 1852, his uncle John W. Sloane joined the firm and it was renamed W. & J. Sloane.
  He later became a member of the firm, and in 1870 was sent west to San Francisco to establish the California branch of the firm. When the company was incorporated in 1891, Sloane became a director and remained on the board until his death.  He later served as a senior director and treasurer of the company.  In his father and brother's memory, Sloane donated $515,000 to Yale for a large physics laboratory known as the Sloane Physics Laboratory.
  He was a member of the New York Yacht Club, the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club (of which he was the oldest member at the time of his death), and the Pilgrim Club.
caption: Sloane Physics Laboratory, the first science building completed after Sachem's Wood was purchased by Yale
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