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A local cabinet maker built the coffin. Close family and friends met for a small service in the home. Then the body was carried by a rented horse-drawn hearse to the church for a ceremony, and then on to the cemetery for the burial. By the 1890s, full-service funeral homes were beginning to appear in Milwaukee, with more space than the typical ...
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The company was founded by William Elvis Sloan in Chicago, Illinois in 1906 with the introduction of the Royal flushometer, a valve to release a measured amount of water to flush a urinal or toilet. Initial sales were very poor: only a single Royal model flushometer was sold in 1906, and two in 1907.
The complaint filed Thursday by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office charges that during a two year period, Grace Memorial owner Sonya Bland and funeral director Tajai Turner pocketed ...
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He married Bertha Moore (1874-?) in 1898 in Chicago, Illinois, and they had a child, Edith Marie Sloan (1913-?). In 1906, he founded Sloan Valve Company, which is now headquartered in Franklin Park, Illinois. [2] He died on June 25, 1961, at the age of 93 in Chicago, Illinois, and was buried in Oak Park, Illinois. [3]
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A second valve, placed within the main cylinder valve, releases the water in the topmost pressure chamber when the flush lever is activated, sending the main cylinder valve shooting upwards. The topmost pressure chamber slowly refills through its narrow passageway, pushing the valve cylinder back down gradually.