He was an heir to the fortune of the furniture firm of W. and J. Sloane & Co.
Between the Civil War and World War I, the district was the location of some of New York's most famous department stores, including Lord & Taylor, B. Altman, W. & J. Sloane, Arnold Constable, Best & Co., and Bergdorf Goodman.
Hans Sloane | William Sloane Coffin | Sloane Square | Kellie Sloane | W. & J. Sloane | Everett Sloane | Sloane Street | Sloane Ranger | Henry Sloane Coffin | Harvey I. Sloane | Alfred Baldwin Sloane | William Milligan Sloane III | William Milligan Sloane | Sloane Citron | Sloane | Sharon Sloane | Isabel Dodge Sloane's | Isabel Dodge Sloane | Eric Sloane | Cedric Sloane | Arvin Sloane |
Mayor Harvey I. Sloane called together civic and business leaders to lead a task force on homelessness.
In 1981 Sloane ran for a second term as mayor and won, defeating Republican nominee Louie R. Guenthner, Jr., a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, by almost a two to one margin.
It was performed by the "Boston Cadets, who always present Barnet's pieces before they are staged professionally. The new piece is ... a fairy Mother Goose burlesque. The music is by A.B. Sloane. ... Augustus Pitou, Klaw & Erlanger, E.E. Rice, and other prominent gentlemen" attended.
Stovall won 47,633 votes, good for fifth place behind Brown's 165,188 votes, 139,713 for Harvey I. Sloane, the mayor of Louisville, 131,530 for Terry McBrayer and 68,577 for 1st District Congressman Carroll Hubbard.