[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 172 (Tuesday, December 21, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2214]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CELEBRATING THE 175TH ANNIVERSARY OF VERNON AND CAROL SLOAN'S FARMING 
                        IN WILLIAMS COUNTY, OHIO

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                          HON. ROBERT E. LATTA

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, December 21, 2010

  Mr. LATTA. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor and congratulate one 
of Ohio's longest and continuous farming operations. The year 2010 
marks the 175th anniversary of Lewis Clark homesteading and clearing 
the land south of present day Stryker, in Williams County, Ohio. The 
deed for the conveyance of one hundred sixty acres of land is dated 
October 7, 1835 and is granted under the signature of President Andrew 
Jackson. Vernon and Carol Sloan have carried on the stewardship of the 
land begun by Vernon's ancestor Lewis Clark and have helped to feed not 
only Ohioans, but Americans and people from around the world. American 
farmers are some of our hardest working and best producing citizens who 
continue to find innovative ways to produce crops and raise livestock. 
Today less than two percent of Americans earn their livelihood on the 
land while that number is even smaller in Ohio at less than one 
percent. These numbers are contrasted to the forty percent of Americans 
who were engaged in agriculture in 1900.
  Vernon and Carol Sloan have ingrained their love of the land in their 
children and their children's children. The Sloans look forward to 
passing on their farming heritage and tradition to their family's 
future generations to till the land and harvest the bounties of the 
earth.
  Madam Speaker, I salute Vernon and Carol Sloan on their faithfulness 
to the land and their family's wonderful achievement on the 175th 
anniversary of farming in Williams County, Ohio.

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