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SLATER, SAMUEL (1768-1835)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 212 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SLATER, SAMUEL (1768-1835) , American textile manufacturer, was born in Helper, Derbyshire, England, on the 9th of June 1768. In 1783, the year after his father's death, he was apprenticed to Jedediah Strutt, his neighbour and a partner of Richard Arkwright in spinning
cotton
 , and served under him six and a half years. Learning that the
Pennsylvania
  legislature had granted 10o in 1789 to the inventor of a power carding machine, he removed to the United States in that year, but was unable because of British laws to bring with him drawings of
cotton
 -spinning machinery. He wrote to Moses Brown of Providence, R.I., who had made unsuccessful attempts to manufacture cotton cloth, and in January 1790 on Brown's invitation went to Pawtucket, R.I., where he entered into a partnership with William Almy (Moses Brown's soon-in-law) and
Smith
  Brown, a kinsman of Moses Brown, designed (from memory) machines for cotton-spinning, and turned out some yarn in December of the same year. In 1799 he established in his mills one of the first Sunday Schools in America. In 1801 he built a factory in Rehoboth, Mass., and with his brother John, who joined him in 1804, established in 1806 the manufacturing
village
  of Slatersville, in Smithfield township, Rhode Island. He began the manufacture of woollen cloth in 18151816 at Oxford, now
Webster
 , Mass., where he had built cotton mills in 1812. In his later years he was interested in other textile mills and in iron foundries in Rhode Island. He died at
Webster
 , Mass., on the 21st of April 1835. He has been called the " father of American manufactures " and it is no exaggeration to
call
  him the founder of American cotton manufacturing.
See G.S. White, Memoir of Samuel Slater (2nd ed., Philadelphia, 1846) .


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