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William Sloane (S&B 1895)

Railroad Executive. Finance. Publishing. Archaeology. Sloan Family. Cutler School. Yale University. Skull and Bones.

Director of the Northern Pacific Railway and Vice-President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, Mohawk Carpet Mills, the Provident Loan Society, the Bank of Savings, the Bank of the Manhattan Company, and the United States Trust Company.

He was also President of the Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, manager of the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, and a trustee of the Manhattan Maternity Hospital.

A governor of the Yale Publishing Association. He had served as treasurer of the Archaeological Institute of America, and as manager, vice-president, and president of the St. Andrew’s Society of New York, and was a Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Chairman of the board of managers of the Navy Y.M.C.A. He had been president and a member of the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A. for some years, and was also chairman of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the Yale Y.M.C.A. He was secretary and a trustee of the New York Public Library.

Member of the American Philosophical Society.

Trustee, Robert College (Instanbul).[2]

WW1 - Chairman, National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A.[2]

1906 to 1922 - President of W. & J. Sloane Company.[2]

24 Nov 1904 - Married Frances Church, daughter of George Augustus and Leah (Reese) Crocker. Mr. Sloane also leaves a brother, John Sloane (S&B 1905), and a sister, Evelyn Sloane Groswold, wife of William E. S. Griswold (S&B 1899).[4]

1895 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]

In 1891, upon the incorporation of the company [ W & J Sloane], he became its President.

At the age of fifteen he entered the employ of W & J Sloane, the rug and furniture company which his father had founded in New York in 1843.

Died 11 Aug 1922, from complication of diseases. Age 49. Episcopal Church.

By the terms of his will $100,000 was bequeathed to Yale, and $10,000 to the Yale Foreign Missionary Society, for Yale in China. Yale in China was established in 1905, by Arthur Twining (S&B 1876), 13th President of Yale University. In 1924, Yale in China moved to Wuhan.

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen

[4] - Yale Obituary - 1922/23 - Page 182 / On the Page 785.

[5] - Find a Grave - William Sloan (S&B 1895)