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==Personal life and death==
John Elliott Sloan was the son of Paul Lowe Sloan born in 1870. His great grandfather Vaniah Sloan was born in Nashville in 1842. Vaniah was the son of George Leverett Sloan born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1806. He moved to Nashville with his brother Fred sometime around 1868, when Nashville had a population of 25,000. During the Civil War he was a Union sympathizer. He was shot when ambushed out riding for his sympathies with the Union. His son Paul Lowe Sloan married Anne Joy. In 1903 Paul Sloan established Cain-Sloan Co. His oldest son George (
John Sloan was the third son of Paul and Anne Sloan. He married Margaret Howe. They had four sons, John Sloan, Jr.( 1936-1993), the president and CEO of the [[National Federation of Independent Business]], George A. Sloan, who in 1977-1978 was the first American and non- Briton to win the prestigious Amateur Championship in England, Thomas Sloan, and Paul L. Sloan III. John and Margaret Sloan resided at Maple Grove, a farm in Brentwood, Tennessee.<ref name="tennesseanobitjohnesloan" /> Sloan was a co-founder of the [[Iroquois Steeplechase]], Master of the Hounds of the Hillsboro Hunt and a member of the [[Belle Meade Country Club]].<ref name="tennesseanobitjohnesloan" />
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