Slater family
| Slater | |
|---|---|
 Slater Mill (1790), the first textile mill in America. | |
| Current region | Rhode Island, U.S. Connecticut, U.S. Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Place of origin | United States and Britain |
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.[1] After moving many of their mills to the South from New England, the village of Slater-Marietta, South Carolina was named after the family.[2]
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.)[3]
- John Slater (1805–1837), first representative of the town of Webster, Massachusetts in the Massachusetts General Court[4]
- George Slater (1804–1843), one of the first selectman of Webster, Massachusetts[4]
- Horatio Nelson Slater (1808–1888), owner of mills in Webster, Massachusetts[4]
- Horatio Nelson Slater, Jr (1835–1899) Mill owner in Webster[4]
- Horatio Nelson Slater III (1892–1968) founder Slater-Marietta, South Carolina, where he moved mill operations from Massachusetts[5]
- Horatio Nelson Slater, Jr (1835–1899) Mill owner in Webster[4]
- John Slater (1776–1843), co-founder of Slatersville, Rhode Island[6]
- John Fox Slater (1815–1885), abolitionist, philanthropist to African American causes[7]
- William A. Slater (1857–1919), art patron, donor of the Slater Memorial Museum at Norwich Free Academy[8][9]
- William A. Slater, Jr., businessman
- Eleanor Halsley Malone (Slater), New York and Washington DC socialite[10]
- Adrian Halsey Malone (1915–2006), architect, designed Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody and the Bradford Brinton Museum[11]
- William A. Slater (1857–1919), art patron, donor of the Slater Memorial Museum at Norwich Free Academy[8][9]
- John Fox Slater (1815–1885), abolitionist, philanthropist to African American causes[7]
- William Slater
Samuel Slater, "Father of the American Industrial Revolution"
Slater Memorial Museum in Connecticut
Slatersville Green in Rhode Island and the Congregational Church meeting house which the Slaters constructed and attended
John Fox Slater, abolitionist
John and Ruth Slater
References[]
- ^ "The Slaters Go Round the World" https://connecticuthistory.org/the-slaters-go-round-the-world/
- ^ "Upcountry History: Slater Mill and the village of Slater" January 4, 2016, Written by James Richardson http://www.trtribune.com/index.php/local-news/item/2129-upcountry-history-slater-mill-and-the-village-of-slater
- ^ https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/women-inventors/ Women Inventors History Detectives PBS website www.pbs.org|access-date=August 10, 2016
- ^ a b c d http://john.ourjourneys.org/slater/legacy.html
- ^ The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts ... By Jonathan Prude, (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1999) pg. 260
- ^ William R. Bagnall, "The Textile Industries of the United States: Including Sketches and Notices of Cotton, Woolen,..." (The Riverside Press: 1893)
- ^ Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Memorial of John F. Slater, of Norwich, Connecticut, 1815–1884 (University Press: 1885) https://books.google.com/books?id=qwECAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
- ^ "The Slaters Go Round the World" https://connecticuthistory.org/the-slaters-go-round-the-world/
- ^ "Slater, William Albert, 1857–1919 | Archives Directory for the History of Collecting". research.frick.org. Retrieved July 29, 2017.
- ^ Social Register, New York - Page 645 https://books.google.com/books?id=ek5IAAAAYAAJ
- ^ "Adrian Halsey Malone Obituary (2007) San Francisco Chronicle". Legacy.com.
See also[]
Further reading[]
- Slatersville, Rhode Island History
- Barbara M. Tucker, Samuel Slater and the origins of the American textile industry: 1984
- George Savage White ,Memoir of Samuel Slater: the father of American manufactures 1836
- Slater Family Records at Harvard Business School
- American families
- Business families of the United States