Stephen L'Hommedieu Slocum

Slocum was born in Cincinnati on August 11, 1859. He was a son of Col. Joseph J. Slocum and Sallie S. L'Hommedieu (1833–1895).{{Cite news|url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1914958/stephen_slocums_marriage_to_laura/|title = Slocum–Garrison|date = November 21, 1896|access-date = March 3, 2015|newspaper = The New York Times|page = 8|via = Newspapers.com}} His elder brother, Herbert Jermain Slocum,{{cite news |title=MARRIAGES YESTERDAY.; DESCRIPTION OF THE BRIDGES' DRESSES AND NAMES OF THE GUESTS. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1883/04/13/archives/marriages-yesterday-description-of-the-bridges-dresses-and-names-of.html |access-date=27 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=13 April 1883}} was also a prominent soldier.{{cite news |title=Colonel H.J. Slocum, Pursuer Of Villa, Dies. Army Officer Who Directed First Hunt for Mexican Bandit in 1916. Was 72 |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0CEFDF1538E23ABC4850DFB5668383639EDE |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 30, 1928 |access-date=2014-08-20 }}{{cite news |title=COLONEL SLOCUM EXONERATED. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/08/02/archives/colonel-slocum-exonerated.html |access-date=27 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=2 August 1916}} His sister, Margaret Oliva "Daisy" Slocum,{{cite news |title=Deaths -- FLINT |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/08/05/archives/obituary-4-no-title.html |access-date=27 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=5 August 1946}} was the wife of Sherman Flint.{{cite news |title=SHERMAN FLINT |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87862112/sherman-flint/ |access-date=27 October 2021 |work=New York Daily News |date=8 December 1954 |pages=55}}{{cite journal |title=MARRIED |journal=The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces |date=February 18, 1899 |page=593 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vo-AQAAMAAJ |access-date=27 October 2021 |publisher=Army and Navy Journal Incorporated |language=en}}

His maternal grandparents were Alma (née Hammond) L'Hommedieu and Stephen Satterly L'Hommedieu, the president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company.{{Cite news|title = Lieut. Col. Slocum Dies at Age of 74|date = 15 December 1933|work = New York Times|page = 23}} Among his maternal family were aunts Mary (wife of Henry Brockholst Ledyard Jr.) and Alma (wife of George D. Ruggles). His paternal grandparents were Margaret Pierson ({{nee}} Germain Slocum and Joseph Slocum, one of the pioneer settlers of Syracuse.{{cite book |title=The New England Historical and Genealogical Register |date=1924 |publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society |page=210 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KZEeAQAAMAAJ |access-date=27 October 2021 |language=en}} His aunt, Margaret Olivia Slocum, was the wife of Russell Sage (from whom she inherited his entire $70 million fortune following his 1906 death).{{cite book |last1=Crocker |first1=Ruth |title=Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America |date=1 November 2006 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-11205-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LMuZNdrCnKEC |access-date=27 October 2021 |language=en}}

Slocum was involved in the Nez Perce War in 1877, during which he was a volunteer with the 7th Cavalry. He became a second lieutenant in the 18th Infantry in September 1979, and transferred to the 8th Cavalry in 1883, the year he graduated from infantry and cavalry school. He was promoted to first lieutenant in September 1889.{{Cite book|title = Powell's Records of Living Officers of the United States Army|last = Powell|first = William Henry|publisher = L.R. Hamersly & Co.|year = 1890|location = Philadelphia|pages = 545}}

He was stationed in Montana, Texas, the Dakotas, Kansas and Missouri at different times between 1881 and 1905, and was an aide-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier General David S. Stanley until 1886. He marched with the 8th Cavalry from Texas to Fort Meade, South Dakota, in 1888. In 1896 he married Laura Garrison in Christ Church Cathedral, in St. Louis. In 1899 he was assigned to be the U.S. representative to observe the Second Boer War.{{Cite news|url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1914797/stephen_slocum_appointed_us_observer/|title = One Officer Allowed|date = November 1, 1899|accessdate = March 3, 2015|newspaper = The Fort Wayne Sentinel|page = 1|via = Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} Between 1899 and 1912 he was at various times military attaché in Lisbon, London, St. Petersburg, Sweden, and Norway, as well as being on detached service in India in 1907. He also was on the General Staff at Manila in the Philippines from 1905 to 1907. He was stationed on Governors Island in New York before World War I. He was assigned to United States Embassy in London during World War I and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the U.S. and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath by the U.K. government.

Slocum was married to Luna Garrison (1864–1928),{{cite news |title=Mrs. Stephen L'H Slocum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/02/17/archives/obituary-2-no-title.html |access-date=27 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=17 February 1928}} a daughter of Daniel Garrison of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special to THE NEW YORK |title=LIEUT. COL, SLOCUM DIES AT AGE OF 74; U. S. Military Attache at the London Embassy in Days of World War. INDIAN FIGHTER IN WEST Commanded Troop Which Sur- rounded-Sitting Bull's Forces When Chief Was Slain. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/12/15/archives/lieut-col-slocuffl-dies-at-age-of-74-u-s-military-attache-at-the.html |access-date=27 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=15 December 1933}}{{cite news |title=ENDS LIFE IN HOTEL WHILE FATHER SLEPT; Daniel E. Garrison, Jr., of St. Louis Found Dead in His Room at Waldorf by His Young Son. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/09/03/archives/ends-life-in-hotel-while-father-slept-daniel-e-garrison-jr-of-st.html |access-date=27 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=3 September 1911}}

He died in Washington at his home, 2201 R Street, and was buried at Rock Creek Cemetery there.

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