John Eyre Sloane (September 16, 1886 – July 17, 1970) was an American industrialist.
He was born in South Orange, New Jersey, 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, Queens, New York City in 1912.[1]
Sloane was born on September 16, 1886. He graduated from Columbia University in 1908.[1]
He established Sloane Manufacturing Co. in 1915, which was later reorganized into Standard Aircraft Corporation and sold to Mitsui & Co.[2]
He married Thomas Edison's daughter, Madeleine, and they had four sons, Thomas Edison Sloane, John Edison Sloane, Michael Edison Sloane and Peter Edison Sloane.[3] He died in 1970.[4] He was the younger brother of photographer T. O'Conor Sloane Jr.
In his early life, he attended private schools of South Orange. his birthplace, and later attended the Dearborn-Morgan School at Orange. He later entered the Carteret Academy of Orange, graduating in 1904 and thereafter Columbia University, from which he graduated with the class of 1908 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After graduating from college, he went into the commercial business, and in 1911 he went into the manufacturing business. Because of his interest in aviation, he established one of the first aeroplane plants in the country in Long Island City in 1912. He also did considerable work in the design and construction of gas engines. ...
John Edison Sloane, an investment counselor and a grandson of Thomas A. Edison, died on Thursday at his home in Summit, N.J., at the age of 72. He died of multiple strokes, the Brough Funeral Home said. ...
John Eyre Sloane, a retired, investment banker and former chairman of the New Jersey Planning Board died yesterday of a stroke in Memorial Hospital, Easton, Md. He was 83 years old and lived in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N.J., and St. Michael's, Md.
