OF THE SLOCUMS, SLOCUMBS AND SLOCOMBS OF AMERICA, GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL; EMBRACING ELEVEN GENERATIONS OF THE FIRST-NAMED FAMILY WITH THEIR ALLIANCES AND THE DESCENDANTS IN THE FEMALE LINES BY CHARLES ELIHU SLOCUM, M. D., PH. D. In treasuring up the memorials of the fathers, we best manifest our regard for SYRACUSE, N. Y.: 1882. 5637 1889 ΤΟ ALL PERSONS LIVING, AND TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE DECEASED, WHO HAVE IN ANY WAY CONTRIBUTED TO MAKE THE NAME SLOCUM, SLOCUMB, OR SLOCOMB, RESPECTABLE AND RESPECTED, THIS VOLUME IS SINCERELY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. He that to ancient wreathes can bring no more JOHN CLEVELAND. I am one Who finds within me a nobility That spurns the idle pratings of the great, And their mean boast of what their fathers were, The scorn of all who know the worth of mind And virtue. JAMES GATES PERCIVAL. The reputation of a man is like his shadow: It sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him; it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.-FRENCH PROVERB. |