From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 436.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JOHN W. SLIFFE

John W. Sliffe, of Wheeling, W. Va., prominently identified with the 
grocery trade of that city, is a native of Washington county, Penn., 
the son of Philip Sliffe, who was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, of 
German descent, and died August 20, 1879.  His wife, who still 
survives, is Susanna, daughter of Amos de Normandie, who was born in 
Washington county, Penn., of French lineage.  The had six children, 
of whom the subject of this sketch and a sister alone survive.  John 
W. Sliffe was born at Claysville, August 7, 1859, and at six years of 
age accompanied his parents to La Grange county, Ind., where the 
family resided upon a farm seven years, until the death of the 
father.  They then returned to Claysville, and in the spring of 1878 
came to Wheeling, where Mr. Sliffe obtained employment in the 
hardware establishment of A. P. Franzell, for five years.  Subsequent 
to September, 1883 he was engaged with D. J. McKee, grocer, eighteen 
months, and then was clerk in the hardware establishment of John 
Heiner, for four years.  On October 29, 1889, he became the successor 
of W. R. Bassett, in the grocery business at the corner of Virginia 
and South Penn street, where he now conducts a profitable business.  
Mr. Sliffe is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and of the 
Senior Order of American Mechanics. 


(Linda Fluharty)