The Sloan Trust has approved equipment purchases for Bellefontaine City Schools and the Ohio Hi-Point Career Center for the 2016-17 academic year in the amount of $175,000 to each school.
Equipment purchased by the schools with the funds is used for vocational education in accordance with directives contained in the Last Will and Testament of Earl S. Sloan.
Mr. Sloan, a native of Zanesfield, formulated and patented Sloan’s Liniment in the early part of the 1900s. He died in Boston in 1923.
His will established the Sloan Industrial School which was intended to supplement vocational education programs at Bellefontaine High School.
The trust created under the will did not begin funding vocational education until 1948, following the death of his widow in 1946.
The trust is subject to the jurisdiction of the Probate Court in Boston.
Since its establishment, more than $1 million has been expended for vocational educational equipment in Bellefontaine City School and the Ohio Hi-Point Career Center.