Slater family

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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]
      • Martha B.L. Slater (1900-1977), former chairman of the women's division of the National Heart Association.^[6]
        • Denniston Lyon Slater (1927-1971), head of Fanny Farmer Candies
        • Alexander Byers Slater (1930-2007), acquirer of Fanny Farmer Candies^[7]
• John Slater (1776–1843), co-founder of Slatersville, Rhode Island^[8]
  • John Fox Slater (1815–1885), abolitionist, philanthropist to African American causes^[9]
    • William A. Slater (1857–1919), art patron, donor of the Slater Memorial Museum at Norwich Free Academy^[1][10]
      • William A. Slater Jr., businessman
      • Eleanor Halsley (Slater) Malone, New York and Washington DC socialite^[11]
        • Adrian Halsey Malone (1915–2006), architect, designed Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody and the Bradford Brinton Museum^[12]
• William Slater

• 
  Samuel Slater, "Father of the American Industrial Revolution"
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  Slater Memorial Museum in Connecticut
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  Slatersville Green in Rhode Island and the Congregational Church meeting house which the Slaters constructed and attended
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  John Fox Slater, abolitionist
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  John and Ruth Slater

References

1. "The Slaters Go Round the World - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project". Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project - Stories about the people, traditions, innovations, and events that make up Connecticut's rich history. April 4, 2022. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
2. James Richardson. (January 4, 2016). "Upcountry History: Slater Mill and the village of Slater" trtribune.com
3. "Women Inventors History Detectives PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
4. "None". Retrieved June 7, 2023.
5. The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts ... By Jonathan Prude, (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1999) pg. 260
6. "MARTHA B. L. SLATER". The New York Times. November 9, 1977. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
7. "Alexander Byers Slater". www.aspentimes.com. February 19, 2007. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
8. William R. Bagnall (1893). The Textile Industries of the United States: Including Sketches and Notices of Cotton, Woolen,... The Riverside Press.
9. Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1885). Memorial of John F. Slater, of Norwich, Connecticut, 1815–1884. University Press.
10. "Slater, William Albert, 1857–1919 | Archives Directory for the History of Collecting". research.frick.org. Retrieved July 29, 2017.
11. Social Register. New York. 1920. p. 645.
12. "Adrian Halsey Malone Obituary (2007) San Francisco Chronicle". Legacy.com.

See also

• Slater Park
• Slater Park Zoo

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