Papers, 1824-1911.

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Papers, 1824-1911.

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This collection consists largely of business papers of Samuel and Horatio Nelson Slater, for the period 1824 to 1877, including bills, promissory notes, and several memoranda of agreements to build stores and houses for the Slater mills in Oxford, Mass., with detailed specifications by Jonathan Wingate ( - ) and Francis Howe (1795- ). The collection also contains letters written by Horatio Nelson Slater to Judge Peter Child Bacon (1804-1886) of Worcester, Mass., concerning a financial gift given by Slater to Brown University, in addition to the gift document itself; there are also letters commenting on Webster town politics. The octavo volume in typescript was kept by Frank Bulkeley Smith (1864-1918), a trustee and executor of the estate of Horatio Nelson Slater II (1835-1899), nephew and adopted son of Horatio Nelson Slater, who became president of Samuel Slater & Sons Corporation, Webster, Mass., in 1888. The volume was begun in 1899, following Slater's death, and contains a chronology of all financial transactions concerning the estate, for the period 1899 to 1911. There are copies of letters containing detailed valuations of the mills and assessments of proposals to sell the properties; statements of company holdings, with descriptions of the town of Webster, the mills' machinery and their production capacities, labor conditions, cash outlays, inventories, and gains and losses over the period 1901 to 1909. There is also a copy of a recapitalization agreement among the trustees in 1909 and some details of a court case involving efforts by the Slater family to prevent the trustees' sale of mills in 1902.

1 v. ; octavo.1 folder (12 items)

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Slater, Horatio Nelson, 1808-1888

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Slater, Samuel, 1768-1835

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Howe, Francis, b. 1795.

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Bacon, Peter Child, 1804-1886

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Peter Child Bacon (1804-1886) was born in Dudley, Mass., the son of Jepthah and Joanna Child Bacon. He graduated from Brown University in 1827, read law at the Yale College Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1830. He practiced law in Dudley and in Oxford, Mass., and transferred his practice to Worcester in 1844. Bacon was a partner from 1844 to 1849 with Ira Moore Barton (1796-1867), a partner from 1854 to 1873 with Peleg Emory Aldrich (1813-1895), and later a partner with his son Henry B...

Wingate, Jonathan

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Slater and Sons.

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Slater family.

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Samuel Slater (1768-1835), the founder of the American cotton industry, emigrated from England in 1789, having memorized the plans for a cotton mill. He opened his first factory in Pawtucket, R.I., in 1793, and Slater and his family later expanded their woolen and cotton mills throughout Rhode Island and central Massachusetts. His son, Horatio Nelson Slater (1808-1888), eventually inherited much of the Slater and Sons business in Webster and Oxford, Mass. From the description of Pape...

Slater, Horatio Nelson, 1835-1899.

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Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...