John Eyre Sloane (September 16, 1886 – July 17, 1970) was an American industrialist. He was born in

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, to well-known scientist, inventor and author, Dr. T. O'Conor Sloane. He established one of the country's first airplane manufacturing plants in Long Island City,

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in 1912.

Biography

Sloane was born on September 16, 1886. He graduated from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1908. He established Sloane Manufacturing Co. in 1915, which was later reorganized into Standard Aircraft Corporation and sold to

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. He married

Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventi ...

's daughter, Madeleine, and they had four children, Thomas Edison Sloane, John Edison Sloane, Michael Edison Sloane and Peter Edison Sloane. He died in 1970. He was the younger brother of photographer T. O'Conor Sloane Jr.

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