HORSEMEN MOURN SLOCUM'S DEATH
Was One of the Best Known Men on the California Turf
HORSEMEN the State over will mourn the death of Lot D. Slocum, which occurred Wednesday morning at Colusa, of paralysis of the heart.
In connection wit hast horseflesh the name of the deceased was a household word in the mouths of Pacific Coast turfites. Among the famous stock bred by Lot Slocum are Lot Slocum, with a mark of 2:171/4; Luella, the brood mare, dam of. I. de Turk's speedy Myrtle, : 2:133/4,- who captured the Paxton stakes so handily in 1894. Prince Dexter was also bred from the Slocum string.
The horseman died in the harness, so to speak, for it was while running his horse Teddy the Roan at Colusa that the grim reaper garnered him in. He was a horseman by right of birth and ancestry, Sidney Slocum, his father, having been one of New York's best known turfites.
Mr. Slocum was born in Herkimer, N. Y., in 1834. He came to California in 1859, and for several years was identified with various business enterprises in this State and Mexico. In 1868 the Excelsior stables, on Sutter, between Leavenworth and Hyde streets, were established under the firm name of Brown & Slocum. Since 1873, when the senior partner died, the entire charge of the business has devolved on Mr. Slocum, who conducted the management with gratifying success. The surviving relatives are his wife, Ruth B. Slocum, and a son, Harry B. Slocum.
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San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 57, 27 July 1900
Was One of the Best Known Men on the California Turf
HORSEMEN the State over will mourn the death of Lot D. Slocum, which occurred Wednesday morning at Colusa, of paralysis of the heart.
In connection wit hast horseflesh the name of the deceased was a household word in the mouths of Pacific Coast turfites. Among the famous stock bred by Lot Slocum are Lot Slocum, with a mark of 2:171/4; Luella, the brood mare, dam of. I. de Turk's speedy Myrtle, : 2:133/4,- who captured the Paxton stakes so handily in 1894. Prince Dexter was also bred from the Slocum string.
The horseman died in the harness, so to speak, for it was while running his horse Teddy the Roan at Colusa that the grim reaper garnered him in. He was a horseman by right of birth and ancestry, Sidney Slocum, his father, having been one of New York's best known turfites.
Mr. Slocum was born in Herkimer, N. Y., in 1834. He came to California in 1859, and for several years was identified with various business enterprises in this State and Mexico. In 1868 the Excelsior stables, on Sutter, between Leavenworth and Hyde streets, were established under the firm name of Brown & Slocum. Since 1873, when the senior partner died, the entire charge of the business has devolved on Mr. Slocum, who conducted the management with gratifying success. The surviving relatives are his wife, Ruth B. Slocum, and a son, Harry B. Slocum.
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San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 57, 27 July 1900
HORSEMEN MOURN SLOCUM'S DEATH
Was One of the Best Known Men on the California Turf
HORSEMEN the State over will mourn the death of Lot D. Slocum, which occurred Wednesday morning at Colusa, of paralysis of the heart.
In connection wit hast horseflesh the name of the deceased was a household word in the mouths of Pacific Coast turfites. Among the famous stock bred by Lot Slocum are Lot Slocum, with a mark of 2:171/4; Luella, the brood mare, dam of. I. de Turk's speedy Myrtle, : 2:133/4,- who captured the Paxton stakes so handily in 1894. Prince Dexter was also bred from the Slocum string.
The horseman died in the harness, so to speak, for it was while running his horse Teddy the Roan at Colusa that the grim reaper garnered him in. He was a horseman by right of birth and ancestry, Sidney Slocum, his father, having been one of New York's best known turfites.
Mr. Slocum was born in Herkimer, N. Y., in 1834. He came to California in 1859, and for several years was identified with various business enterprises in this State and Mexico. In 1868 the Excelsior stables, on Sutter, between Leavenworth and Hyde streets, were established under the firm name of Brown & Slocum. Since 1873, when the senior partner died, the entire charge of the business has devolved on Mr. Slocum, who conducted the management with gratifying success. The surviving relatives are his wife, Ruth B. Slocum, and a son, Harry B. Slocum.
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San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 57, 27 July 1900
Was One of the Best Known Men on the California Turf
HORSEMEN the State over will mourn the death of Lot D. Slocum, which occurred Wednesday morning at Colusa, of paralysis of the heart.
In connection wit hast horseflesh the name of the deceased was a household word in the mouths of Pacific Coast turfites. Among the famous stock bred by Lot Slocum are Lot Slocum, with a mark of 2:171/4; Luella, the brood mare, dam of. I. de Turk's speedy Myrtle, : 2:133/4,- who captured the Paxton stakes so handily in 1894. Prince Dexter was also bred from the Slocum string.
The horseman died in the harness, so to speak, for it was while running his horse Teddy the Roan at Colusa that the grim reaper garnered him in. He was a horseman by right of birth and ancestry, Sidney Slocum, his father, having been one of New York's best known turfites.
Mr. Slocum was born in Herkimer, N. Y., in 1834. He came to California in 1859, and for several years was identified with various business enterprises in this State and Mexico. In 1868 the Excelsior stables, on Sutter, between Leavenworth and Hyde streets, were established under the firm name of Brown & Slocum. Since 1873, when the senior partner died, the entire charge of the business has devolved on Mr. Slocum, who conducted the management with gratifying success. The surviving relatives are his wife, Ruth B. Slocum, and a son, Harry B. Slocum.
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San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 57, 27 July 1900
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