Slater family

Slater family
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

• 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), Webster, Massachusetts’s first representative in the Massachusetts General Court^[4]
  • George Slater (1804-1843), one of the first selectman of Webster, Massachusetts^[5]
  • Horatio Nelson Slater (1808-1888), owner of mills in Webster, Massachusetts^[6]
    • Horatio Nelson Slater, Jr (1835-1899) Mill owner in Webster^[7]
      • Horatio Nelson Slater III (1892-1968) founder Slater-Marietta, South Carolina, where he moved mill operations from Massachusetts^[8]
      • Gary Stovall Slater (1982-Present), professor of theology and religion, leading scholar of C.S. Peirce, PhD. from Oxford University.
• John Slater (1776–1843), co-founder of Slatersville, Rhode Island^[9]
  • John Fox Slater (1815-1885), abolitionist, philanthropist to African American causes^[10]
    • William A. Slater (1857-1919), art patron, donor of the Slater Memorial Museum at Norwich Free Academy^[11][12]
      • William A. Slater, Jr., businessman
      • Eleanor Halsley Malone (Slater), New York and Washington DC socialite^[13]
        • Adrian Halsey Malone (1915-2006), architect, designed Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody and the Bradford Brinton Museum^[14]
• William Slater

• 
  Samuel Slater,"Father of the American Industrial Revolution"
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  Slater Memorial Museum in Connecticut
• 
  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
• 
  John and Ruth Slater

References

See also

• Slater Park
• Slater Park Zoo