GENERAL JOHN P. SLOUGH
John P. Slough, soldier, state legislator, author, was born in 1829, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio state legislature, from which he was expelled for striking a member during debate. In 1852 he was chosen secretary of the central democratic committee. He soon after went to Kansas; and in 1860 removed to Denver city, Colo. On the breaking out of the civil war he served with credit on the southwestern frontiers; and was made a brigadier-general and military governor at Alexandria, in Virginia. At the close of the war he was appointed chief justice of the territory of New Mexico. He died Dec. 16, 1867, in Santa Fe, N.M.