Editing Vesto Slipher (section)

==Early life and education==
Vesto Melvin Slipher was born in [[Mulberry, Indiana]], to Daniel Clark and Hannah App Slipher. He spent his early years working on his family farm in Mulberry.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Graves Hoyt |first=William |date=1980 |editor-last=Crawford Jr. |editor-first=Bryce |editor2-last=McEuen |editor2-first=Caroline K. |title=Vesto Melvin Slipher |journal=Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences  |publisher=National Academy Press |volume=52 |page=413}}</ref> Vesto had a younger brother, [[Earl C. Slipher]], who was also an astronomer at [[Lowell Observatory]].<ref name=":1" />
Slipher went to high school in [[Frankfort, Indiana|Frankfort, IN]]. He then attended [[Indiana University]] in [[Bloomington, Indiana|Bloomington, IN]] and earned his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanics and Astronomy in June 1901.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Graves Hoyt |first=William |date=1980 |editor-last=Crawford Jr. |editor-first=Bryce |editor2-last=McEuen |editor2-first=Caroline K. |title=Vesto Melvin Slipher |journal=Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences  |publisher=National Academy Press |volume=52 |page=414}}</ref> Two years later, Slipher earned his Master's Degree in the same program.<ref name=":2" /> At the age of 33, Vesto graduated with his Ph.D. in Mechanics and Astronomy from Indiana University.<ref name=":2" />