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Slater family

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Slater
Slater Mill (1790), the first textile mill in America.
Current regionRhode Island, U.S.
Connecticut, U.S.
Massachusetts, U.S.
Place of originUnited 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

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William Slater (1728–1782) & Elizabeth Slater, farmers in the UK

References

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  1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b c d "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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ^ "Adrian Halsey Malone Obituary (2007) San Francisco Chronicle". Legacy.com.

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