George Beale Sloan (June 20, 1831 – July 10, 1904) was an American businessman, banker and politician.
George Beale Sloan was born in Oswego, New York, on June 20, 1831.
[1] From 1864 to 1884, he was co-owner of the firm of "Sloan & Irwin, flour commissioners" which held a large number of business interests.
[3] In 1892, as a member of the Committee of the Detroit Deep Water Ways Convention in Washington, D.C., he gave his adverse opinion on the ruinously high import duty on Canadian barley.
[5] His son George Beale Sloan Jr. committed suicide on July 10, 1914 (exactly 10 years after the death of his father), by jumping from a concrete bridge over Rye Lake at Kensico, New York.