Slater, Nelson

Nelson Slater was born in Champlain, New York, in 1805. After graduating from Union College (1831) and Auburn Theologial Seminary (1834), he was a Presbyterian minister in Morris County New Jersey, a school administrator in Painesville, Ohio (1835) and Illinois (1841), and the head of a seminary in Mississippi (1850). He moved with his wife Emily and children to California in 1851, and settled in Sacramento where he was a minister and school administrator. With P. L. Platt he wrote The Traveler's Guide Across the Plains, Upon the Overland Route to California (Chicago: Printed at the Daily Journal Office, 1852). He died in Sacramento in 1886.

Henrietta Slater McIntire (daughter of Nelson and Emily Slater) was born shortly after her parents arrived in California in 1851. She graduated from the State Normal School in San Francisco in 1868, and the San Francisco high school in 1872. She was a teacher until she married John A. McIntire of the Sacramento grocery firm of Booth and Company. She died in Sacramento in 1923.