Slater family
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Connecticut, U.S.
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The Slater family is an American philanthropic, political, and manufacturing family from England, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut whose members include the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," Samuel Slater, a prominent textile tycoon who founded America's first textile mill, Slater Mill (1790), and with his brother John Slater founded Slatersville, Rhode Island in North Smithfield, Rhode Island in 1803, America's first planned mill village. The family includes various merchants, inventors, art patrons, and socialites. John Fox Slater, was a prominent abolitionist who founded the Slater Fund and built the historic John F. Slater House and Slater Library. William A. Slater was a noted art collector and philanthropist who created the Slater Memorial Museum in Connecticut.{{Cite web |date=2022-04-04 |title=The Slaters Go Round the World - Connecticut History {{!}} a CTHumanities Project |url=https://connecticuthistory.org/the-slaters-go-round-the-world/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Connecticut History {{!}} a CTHumanities Project - Stories about the people, traditions, innovations, and events that make up Connecticut's rich history. |language=en}} After moving many of their mills to the South from New England, the village of Slater-Marietta, South Carolina was named after the family.James Richardson. (January 4, 2016). [http://www.trtribune.com/index.php/local-news/item/2129-upcountry-history-slater-mill-and-the-village-of-slater "Upcountry History: Slater Mill and the village of Slater"] trtribune.com
Family members
William Slater (1728–1782) & Elizabeth Slater, farmers in the UK
- Samuel Slater (1768–1835), (founder of Slater Mill) married Hannah Slater (Wilkinson) (1774–1812) (first woman to receive a patent in the U.S.){{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/women-inventors/|title= Women Inventors History Detectives PBS |website=www.pbs.org|access-date=August 10, 2016}}
- John Slater (1805–1837), first representative of the town of Webster, Massachusetts in the Massachusetts General Court{{Cite web|url=http://john.ourjourneys.org/slater/legacy.html|title=None|accessdate=June 7, 2023}}
- George Slater (1804–1843), one of the first selectman of Webster, Massachusetts
- Horatio Nelson Slater (1808–1888), owner of mills in Webster, Massachusetts
- Horatio Nelson Slater Jr. (1835–1899), mill owner in Webster
- Horatio Nelson Slater III (1892–1968) founder Slater-Marietta, South Carolina, where he moved mill operations from MassachusettsThe Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts ...
By Jonathan Prude, (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1999) pg. 260
- Martha B.L. Slater (1900-1977), former chairman of the women's division of the National Heart Association.{{Cite news |date=1977-11-09 |title=MARTHA B. L. SLATER |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/09/archives/martha-bl-slater.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |issn=0362-4331}}
- Denniston Lyon Slater (1927-1971), head of Fanny Farmer Candies
- Alexander Byers Slater (1930-2007), acquirer of Fanny Farmer Candies{{Cite web |date=2007-02-19 |title=Alexander Byers Slater |url=https://www.aspentimes.com/news/alexander-byers-slater/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=www.aspentimes.com |language=en-US}}
- John Slater (1776–1843), co-founder of Slatersville, Rhode Island{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YuoJAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22john+slater%22+slatersville+born&pg=RA1-PA396 |author=William R. Bagnall|title= The Textile Industries of the United States: Including Sketches and Notices of Cotton, Woolen,...|publisher=The Riverside Press|date= 1893}}
- John Fox Slater (1815–1885), abolitionist, philanthropist to African American causes{{cite book|author=Rutherford Birchard Hayes|title= Memorial of John F. Slater, of Norwich, Connecticut, 1815–1884 |publisher=University Press|date= 1885|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qwECAAAAYAAJ}}
- William A. Slater (1857–1919), art patron, donor of the Slater Memorial Museum at Norwich Free Academy{{cite web|url=http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=6845|publisher=research.frick.org|title=Slater, William Albert, 1857–1919 | Archives Directory for the History of Collecting|accessdate=July 29, 2017}}
- William A. Slater Jr., businessman
- Eleanor Halsley (Slater) Malone, New York and Washington DC socialite{{cite book|title=Social Register|year=1920 |location=New York |page =645 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ek5IAAAAYAAJ}}
- Adrian Halsey Malone (1915–2006), architect, designed Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody and the Bradford Brinton Museum{{Cite news|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=87321352|title=Adrian Halsey Malone Obituary (2007) San Francisco Chronicle|website=Legacy.com}}
- William Slater
Samuel_Slater_industrialist.jpg|Samuel Slater, "Father of the American Industrial Revolution"
John Fox Slater Memorial Museum, 108 Crescent Street, Norwich (New London County, Connecticut).jpg|Slater Memorial Museum in Connecticut
Slatersville Common and Church.jpg|Slatersville Green in Rhode Island and the Congregational Church meeting house which the Slaters constructed and attended
John Fox Slater.jpg|John Fox Slater, abolitionist
John Slater.JPG|John and Ruth Slater
References
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See also
= Further reading =
- [http://www.woonsocket.org/slatersville.htm Slatersville, Rhode Island History]
- Barbara M. Tucker, [https://books.google.com/books?id=eFq2AAAAIAAJ Samuel Slater and the origins of the American textile industry]: 1984
- George Savage White, [https://books.google.com/books?id=O8QEAAAAYAAJ Memoir of Samuel Slater: the father of American manufactures] 1836
- [http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~bak00045 Slater Family Records at Harvard Business School]