An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company,
Spokane, WA. 1905, page 236-237.

GEORGE I. SLOCOM is conducting a book and stationery store, in the new brick
block owned by his uncle, E.L. Smith. He is a young man and gives his attention
strictly to business and is working up a fine business. He was born in Illinois,
on September 19, 1878, the son of Charles and Eva (Hartman) Slocom, natives of
Woodstock, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, respectively. The Slocoms came right from
New York and are a very old and prominent family, John Slocom of the Civil war,
being a member of that family. The mother's people were Pennsylvania Dutch. The
father died in 1884 and the mother in the same year. This occurred in Illinois
and our subject was left an orphan when five years of age. His aunt brought him
and his brother, Charles L., aged three, to Oregon to live. They were in the
care of their uncle, E.L. Smith. Fate had given them a very excellent home and
they received as kind care and treatment as though children of that family.
George I. studied in the graded schools of Hood River then spent some time in
Pacific university at Forest Grove. After that, he was occupied with his uncle
on the fruit farm for three rears then he entered the employ of the American
Steel and Wire Company of Portland. That continued for three years. At the end
of that time he was appointed on the exhibit corps for the Buffalo and
Charleston World's Fairs in the department of horticulture for the state of
Oregon. This occupied him for two years, then in June, 1902, he returned to Hood
River. His father was a newspaper editor and our subject imbibed naturally, a
liking for books and the business which he is now following appealed strongly to
him, consequently he opened a shop in Hood River. He has a neat, attractive
place, supplied with everything carried in this kind of a store. His genialty
and deferential treatment of all have brought him a nice patronage and his
business is growing rapidly.      

Mr. Slocom is a member of the order of Pendo. Politically, he is a strong
Republican and was secretary of the Roosevelt league. He has two brothers and
one sister: L. Leroy now employed in the American Wire and Steel Company in San
Francisco; James B., a school boy in Chicago; and Elinor, wife of Fred Greiner,
a bookkeeper in the Illinois Terra Cotta Lumber Company of Chicago.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2005 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.