Slade, Charles – Sleeth, James M
Slade, Charles
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Illinois from 1833 to 1834. He died in July, 1834, in Knox county, Ind.
Slade, Daniel Denison
physician, scientist, author, was born May 10, 1823, in Boston, Mass. He attended the Boston Latin school and graduated from the Harvard university.
He was a physician and scientist, and professor of zoölogy at Harvard university from 1871. He was the author of Diphtheria: its Nature and Treatment; Twelve Days in the Saddle, a Journey in New England in 1883; and Evolution of Horticulture in New England. He died Feb. 11, 1896, in Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Slade, Emma M. R. H
was born Jan. 11, 1847, in Lowell, Mass. She is the founder and organizer and first president of the National Society of New England Women; the president of the United States Daughters of 1812 for New York, New Jersey and New England; and a prominent member of the Daughters of the Revolution.
Slade, James P
educator, college president, was born Feb. 9, 1837, in Westerlo, N. Y. This eminent educator is the state superintendent of public instruction of Illinois, and president of the Almira college.
Slade, William
journalist, lawyer, Jurist, congressman, governor, author, was born May 9, 1786, in Cornwall, Vt. In 1815 he was elected secretary of state of Vermont, which office he held eight years, during six of which he officiated as judge of the Addison county court. He was subsequently state's attorney for the same county. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1831 to 1843; and on his retirement from congress was elected reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of Vermont. In 1844 he was chosen governor of Vermont; and was subsequently made secretary of the national board of popular education. In 1823 he published the Vermont State Papers; in 1825 the Statutes of Vermont; and in 1844 a volume of Vermont Reports. He died Jan. 18, 1859, in Middlebury, Vt.
Slafter, Carlos
educator, author, was born July 21, 1825, in Thetford, Vt.
He received his education at the Thetford academy, and in 1849 graduated from Dartmouth college. He taught one year in the Framingham academy; and for forty years, during 1852-92, was principal of the Dedham High school, Mass. In 1865 he was admitted to deacon's orders in the episcopal church; and for three years was chaplain of the county prison at Dedham.
He is the author of a Compendium of English Grammar, several novels, and various addresses on patriotic, educational and historical subjects.
Slafter, Edmund Farwell
clergyman, author, was born May 30, 1816, in Norwich, Vt. For twenty years he was superintendent for the protestant episcopal church and the American Bible society; and since 1877 has devoted his time to historical studies. He is most noted for his Memorial of John Slafter, with genealogical account of his descendants.
Slagle, Charles W
merchant, philanthropist, was born March 11, 1828, in Hanover, Pa. He is distinguished as a successful merchant and philanthropist of Baltimore, Md.
Slater, James Harvey
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 28, 1826, in Sangamon county, Ill. He was a member of the Oregon territorial assembly in 1857 and 1858, and of the state assembly immediately after the admission of Oregon as a state. He was elected district attorney in 1866; and was a presidential elector in 1868. He was elected a representative from Oregon to the forty-second congress; and was elected a United States senator from Oregon for the term of six years from March 4, 1879. In 1887 he was appointed railroad commissioner for Oregon.
Slater, John Fox
philanthropist, was born March 4, 1815, in Slaterville, R.
I. He was early interested in the cause of education, and gave liberally for the establishment of the Norwich free academy and other objects. In 1882 he placed in the hands of trustees $1,000,000, the interest of which is to be used for the education of freedmen in the south. He died May 7, 1884, in Norwich, Conn.
Slater, William Albert
philanthropist. In 1886 he transferred to the Norwich free academy a building costing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which he erected in memory of his father, John Fox Slater.
Slaughter, Gabriel
soldier, farmer, state legislator, governor, was born in 1767 in Virginia. He was frequently a member of the Kentucky state legislature. At the battle of New Orleans he was chosen colonel of a Kentucky regiment, and received the thanks of the legislature. He was chosen lieutenant-governor, and, after the death of Governor Madison, was governor from 1816 to 1820. He died Sept. 9, 1830, in Mercer county, Ky.
Slaughter, Guilford H
farmer, state senator, was born Aug. 29, 1828, in Hopkinsville, Ky. He was postmaster for twenty-five years; and for the same period was a justice of the peace. For two terms he served as a state senator.
Slaughter, Linda W
journalist, poet, was born Feb. 1, 1850, in Harrison county, Ohio. She is a writer of Bismarck, N. D.; and has been vice-president of the Woman's National Press association Washington, D. C. She is the author of several prose works; and a volume of poems entitled Early Efforts. at
Slaughter, Philip
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 26, 1808, in Springfield, Va. He was an episcopal clergyman of Virginia, historiographer of the diocese; and the author of The Colonial Church in Virginia; and Man and Woman.
Slaughter, William Bank
lawyer, author, was born April 10, 1798, in Culpeper county, Va. He was a Wisconsin lawyer of note who published Reminiscences of Distinguished People I Have Met. He died July 21, 1879, in Madison, Wis.
Slaughter, William Montgom- Rie
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born July 25, 1833, near Waverly, Ohio. He received a liberal education at the public schools, and at Otterbein university, Ohio.
In 1856 he was a representative in the Nebraska legislature; and in 1859 was a representative in the legislature of Jefferson Territory, now Colorado. In 1859-60 he was judge of appellate court, people's government of Denver. He also served with distinction in the Colorado legislature of 1862, and 1867-68. In 1870 he was chief clerk of the house of representatives, and has filled various other positions of honor. Since 1866 he has been continuously in the practice of law, and now resides at Loveland, Colo.
Slayden, James L
merchant, state legislator, congressman; was born June 1, 1853, in Graves county, Ky. He was a member of the twenty-third legislature of Texas in 1892; declined re-election; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. He has taken an active part in various debates on bills that affect the welfare of his state; and has served on numerous important committees. He is a successful cotton merchant of San Antonio, Texas.
Slaymaker, Amos
soldier, congressman, was born March 11, 1755, in London Lands, Pa. He served as a soldier in the revolutionary army. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania during a part of the thirteenth congress to fill a vacancy. He died June 12, 1837, in Salisbury, Pa.
Sleat, John Drake
naval officer, was born in 1780, in New York city. In 1800 he entered the navy as sailing master, passed through all grades, and attained the rank of rear admiral. He died Nov. 28, 1867, in New Brighton, N. Y.
Sleeper, David L
lawyer, state legislator, was born June 15, 1856, in Iowa. During 1885-91 he was prosecuting attorney of Athens county, Ohio. He was elected as a republican to the seventy-first general assembly of Ohio; and re-elected to the seventy-second general assembly; and served as speaker of the house.
Sleeper, John Sherburne
journalist, author, was born Sept. 21, 1794, in Tyngsboro, Mass. He was a shipmaster and subsequently a journalist of Boston, editor of The Journal in 1834-54; and the author of Tales of the Ocean; Salt-Water Bubbles; Jack in the Forecastle; and Mark Rowland, a Tale of the Sea. He died Nov. 14, 1878, in Boston Highlands, Mass.
Sleeper, William True
clergyman, poet, was born Feb. 9, 1819, in Danbury, N. H. He received his education in Exeter, N. H.; graduated from the university of Vermont in 1850; and three years later from the Andover Theological seminary. For four years he was chaplain of the reform school at Westboro, Mass.; and has filled pastorates at Patten, Sherman and Fort Fairfield, Maine; and for nineteen years at Worcester, Mass.
He was supervisor of schools in Aroostook county, Maine, during 1870-72; was editor and founder of the North Star of Caribou, Maine; and the projector and president of the Aroostook River railroad. Since 1853 he has been engaged in the ministry, and has built five churches. He is the author of a volume of poems; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Sleeth, James M
jurist, state legislator, was born March 24, 1817, in Clarksburg, Va. He was nominated and elected state senator from Shelbyville, Ind., and served one long term of three sessions.
He was chosen for the second time in 1851. In 1853 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas, which position he creditably filled for eight years. In 1869 he was again sent to the legislature, to represent the counties of Bartholomew and Shelby.