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JOHN FOX SLATER (1815-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 212 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:FOX See also:SLATER (1815-1884)  , See also:American philanthropist, son of See also:John See also:Slater (See also:Samuel Slater's See also:brother and partner), was See also:born in Slatersville, Rhode See also:Island, on the 4th of See also:March 1815 . He was educated in See also:academies at See also:Plainfield, See also:Connecticut, and Wrentham and Wilbraham, See also:Massachusetts . At seventeen he entered his- See also:father's woollen See also:mill in Hopeville, See also:Conn., of which he took See also:charge in 1836 . This and other See also:mills he owned in partner-See also:ship with his brother, See also:William S . Slater, until 1873, when his brother took over the Slatersville Mills and he assumed See also:sole ownership of the mills at See also:Jewett See also:City, Conn . In 1842 he re-moved from Jewett City to See also:Norwich; there he helped to endow the Norwich See also:Free See also:Academy, to which his son presented the Slater Memorial See also:Hall; and there he died on the 7th of May 1884 . In 1882 he had made over to a See also:board of ten trustees, incorporated in New See also:York See also:state, $r,000,000 for " the uplifting of the lately emancipated See also:population of the See also:Southern states, and their posterity, by conferring on them the benefits of See also:Christian See also:education." Among the See also:original trustees of the Slater Fund were See also:Rutherford B . See also:Hayes, See also:Morrison R . See also:Waite, William E . See also:Dodge, See also:Phillips See also:Brooks, See also:Daniel C . See also:Gilman, See also:Morris K . See also:Jesup and the donor's son, William A .

Slater; and among members chosen later were See also:

Melville W . See also:Fuller, William E . Dodge, Jr., See also:Henry C . See also:Potter, See also:Cleveland H . Dodge and See also:Seth See also:Low . In 1909 by careful investment the fund had increased, in spite of expenditures, to more than $1,500,000 . The fund has been of See also:great value in aiding See also:industrial See also:schools in the See also:South, its largest beneficiaries being the See also:Hampton Normal and Agricultural See also:Institute of Hampton, See also:Virginia, the See also:Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Tusk.egee, See also:Alabama, See also:Spelman See also:Seminary in See also:Atlanta, See also:Georgia, Claffin University in See also:Orangeburg, S.C., and See also:Fisk University, in See also:Nashville, See also:Tennessee . At Winston-See also:Salem, N.C., is the Slater State Normal and Industrial School, founded' in 1892 and named after the founder of the fund . Other state normal schools for negroes have received assistance from the fund; and in some cases it has contributed directly to the school boards of Southern cities .

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