Editing Vesto Slipher (section)

==Personal life==
Slipher married Emma R. Munger in 1904 in Frankfort, IN. Vesto and Emma had two children together, David Clark and Marcia Frances.<ref name="Graves Hoyt 1980 415">{{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=415}}</ref>

In 1901, Vesto Slipher moved to [[Flagstaff, Arizona]] and began work at Lowell Observatory.<ref name="Graves Hoyt 1980 415"/> He spent the next 53 years of his life working at Lowell Observatory as an assistant and then the director of the observatory until his retirement in 1954. Slipher lived until age 93 and died in Flagstaff in 1969.<ref name="Graves Hoyt 1980 415"/> He is buried at [[List of historic properties in Flagstaff, Arizona#Flagstaff Citizens Cemetery|Citizens Cemetery]] in Flagstaff.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nickell |first=Duane S. |title=Scientific Indiana |publisher=The History Press |year=2021 |isbn=9781467149488 |page=37}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Vesto Melvin Slipher |url=https://arizonagravestones.org/view.php?id=92752 |website=arizonagravestones.org |publisher=Gravestone Photo Project (GPP)}}</ref>