Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — GEN. SLOCUM DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEN. SLOCUM DEAD.

Gen. Henry W. Slocum died at Brooklyn, Saturday, after a week’s illness, of pneumonia. Gen. Slocum waS born In' Delhi, N. Y., Sept. 24,1827. Graduated, !rom West Point in 1852. Served five fears in the regular army, after which ho

practiced law in Syracuse until the outbreak _of_ the-rebellion, when ho again; filtered the service as Colonel of the Twenty-seventh New York Volunteers. Served continuously throughout the war, rising to the rank of Major-General. After the war he settled in Brooklyn, and has represented his district twice in Congress.

GEN. H. W. SLOCUM.