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  Dickinson Family History - pafg06 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
William Slater [Parents] was born in 1731 and was christened on 5 Apr 1731.
William Slater was born in 1757 and died on 8 Oct 1831.
margaret slater [Parents] was born on 5 Mar 1843 in highgate, kendal and was christened on 12 Mar 1843 in kendal.
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 The Brown University News Service
In addition, Joseph Brown, who contributed toward the architectural design and planning of the College Edifice, donated a reflecting telescope to the College in 1769 and was appointed professor of experimental philosophy in 1784, teaching the natural sciences of astronomy and physics.
Nicholas Brown and Company had dispersed in 1774, but during the war Nicholas and John Brown continued to be both separately involved and conjoined in the European trade, often by way of the West Indies, that provided America with gunpowder and munitions useful in the war effort.
However, the Brown family was already indispensable in the development of the College by this time: standing among the original signatories of the College’s charter, serving on the inaugural Corporation, leading and administrating the move to Providence and serving as both faculty and administration.
www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/Info/Slavery.html   (4691 words)

  
 William E. Slater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Slater was elected to the board of supervisors in 1930 and was chairman of the finance committee.
Slater was treasurer of the Ottawa Petroleum company, vice president of the Builtwell corporation of Spring Lake and a director of the Nunica school board.
Slater was a member of the Nunica M.E. Church and a leader in all village activities.
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 Brown County, Part 17
Slater was born in Hopkinton, R. I., January 25, 1805, and lived in his native state one year when his parents removed to Eaton, Madison Co., N. Y., where Mr.
Slater is a skillful mechanic, and as he is the only one of his trade in the town of Robinson, he is always kept busily employed.
WILLIAM A. WOLFE, farmer and stock-raiser, northwest half of Section 5, Township 3, Range 18, P. Robinson, was born in Morgan County, Ill., February 15, 1835, and lived in his native State until his twenty-second year, when he removed to Dunn County, Wis., and was engaged for eight years in running a double rotatory saw-mill.
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 Samuel Slater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Samuel was born in 1768 in the county of Derbyshire, England.
William's status in the community gave his son the opportunity to pursue the highest level of management training.
Slater agreed to prove himself by working without a contract for the first 10 weeks while he rebuilt a spinning frame.
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Brown was a philosophic pacifist, and had recently been part of a group that had gone to Washington to badger the government, which was girding up for war.
Slater learned all about the machines, and when his term of apprenticeship was up—he was scrupulous about things like that—he slipped off to America—illegally, for Englishmen who knew about machinery were not allowed to emigrate.
Third, it was discovered that the intellectual and high-minded Ruth, the head of the Slater family in the mansion on the hill, was, at the age of forty-five, having an affair with the man who ran the family farm.
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 Slater's Mark: Samuel Slater and the Founding of Webster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Samuel Slater was born on June 9, 1768 in Belper, Derbyshire, England.
Brown was a wealthy merchant and manufacturer in Providence, Rhode Island, and brother of John Brown, who would first propose the construction of the Blackstone Canal from Providence to Worcester.
Slater was able to manufacture working cotton carding and spinning machines within four months of his arrival in Pawtucket.
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 OBITUARY SKETCH OF ARTHUR M. BROWN
Upon leaving school in 1894 he embarked as cabin boy on the yacht of William A. Slater, a wealthy Norwich resident, for a two-year cruise around the world, before the end of which he was promoted to quartermaster.
Brown was interested and active in politics and represented his town in the house of representatives at the 1901 session, as delegate to the constitutional convention of 1902, and as senator from the then eleventh district at the session of 1903.
Brown was most cordial and agreeable in both social and professional contacts, and he made and retained a host of friends whom his regard and loyalty were unswerving.
www.cslib.org /memorials/brownam.htm   (861 words)

  
 William Appleton and Company Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
William Appleton (1786-1862) was a shipping merchant based in Boston, Massachusetts.
William's daughter, Sarah, married Amos A. Lawrence, whose family was also involved in the textile industry.
One is entitled, "To a Father upon the death of his first born." Many of the letters are from her parents, Mary Ann and William, written while her father served in Congress.
www.library.hbs.edu /hc/wes/indexes/alpha/content/1001955566.html   (320 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
He was the eighth child of James and Lydia (Slater) Brown of Montreal.
Lydia Slater was born at New York City on October 3, 1781, shortly after her parents' arrival from Ireland.
Brown was one of the unfortunate prisoners captured with Colonel Fannin, who were treacherously massacred by the Mexicans on the Plains of La Bahia, near Fort Goliad, and their remains interred with military honours by the troops under General Rusk's command, on the 4th of June last.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/BB/fbrec.html   (841 words)

  
 A Brief History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The 5.5 acres of Slater Mill Historic Site were the location of intense industrialization and technological innovation during the late eighteenth and first quarter of the nineteenth centuries.
Samuel Slater successfully duplicated British water-powered spinning, picking, carding, drawing, and roving machines at Ezekiel Carpenter's clothier's shop in 1790 thus earning himself a partnership with William Almy and Smith Brown in the first water-powered cotton textile factory in America.
Brown was a master craftsman who contributed to Slater's success by making machine patterns and wooden machine parts for Slater's textile mill.
www.slatermill.org /html/a_brief_history.html   (233 words)

  
 BookRags: Moses Brown Biography
Moses Brown was born into a family of merchants of Providence, R.I. He began his business education as apprentice to his uncle, Obadiah Brown.
Brown's deliberate withdrawals from the business world indicated his anxiety to achieve religious peace by escaping worldly preoccupations.
Brown's interest in business enterprises was conditioned by a concern as statesmanlike as it was business-like.
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on william slater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 Will W. Slater
William Washington Slater was born February 2, 1885, in Logan County, near Ozark Arkansas.
He was the son of William David and Melvina Elizabeth (Williams) Slater.
When William was five years old, his family moved to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) settling near Sallisaw on a farm.
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 Civil War Letters of William Laban Brown
William, Mary Sharpe was at meeting in great trouble yesterday for she han’t heard from Boid since last Nov. If you know anything of him or can find out anything, write to me all about him if he is dead and I will let her know and also Mat Rodgers.
Captain Slater [probably Alexander P. Slatery] will do all he can for me. There is a good many that ought to have a discharge I am examined and considered not fit for field duty I might get sent to the invalid corps and I don’t think I would like to go in to it.
Brown and the furloughs was filled out and sent up to the post commander to sign and they han’t come back yet and I don’t think they never will for it has been ten days since they went up.
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 Civil War Letters of William Laban Brown
The letters, saved by his widow Nancy Colvin Brown and provided to me to copy by her granddaughter Jodie Brown (daughter of Albert Rosecrans Brown), were mostly from W.L. to his wife and to his parents John (Jhon) and Mary ("Polly") and his brothers and sisters.
One letter from Nancy Colvin Brown to W.L. Brown survives because it never reached him and was returned to her after his death on the Sultana.
William Laban Brown was the son of John (Jhon) Brown (18 Jun 1813 - 28 Sep 1882) and Mary "Polly" Gossett Brown (21 Oct 1812 - 21 Jan 1896).
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 Worcester Telegram & Gazette News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Research indicates her copy of the William Slater Brown book, published in 1963, was a gift to the town library by the Webster Womans Club in memory of a Carolyn G. Prout, the wife of Joseph C. Prout, once owner of a town insurance agency.
Brisbois said she looked up William Slater Brown on Google and learned that he was incarcerated at LaFerte-Mace in France along with poet-playwright e e cummings during World War I. Both were volunteers with Norton-Harjer Ambulance Corps.
Brown was detained for 2-1/2 months after cummings was released at the behest of his father, a Cambridge physician.
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 Swearer Center for Public Service
Genesis Center Teacher Education is a new project, bringing Brown students to the Genesis Center to observe ingoing ESOL classes, to learn about English language and literacy education, and to develop teaching skills as participant observers.
Classes are team taught by professionals in deaf education, and Brown volunteers serve as assistants.
Swearer Adult Basic Education (ABE) Program provides instruction and support to Brown employees enrolled in GED classes, women who are unable to attend traditional ABE programs and other adults in Providence seeking to improve their basic skills.
www.brown.edu /Departments/Swearer_Center/programs/literacy.shtml   (336 words)

  
 BookPage Interview April 1999: Carrie Brown
The 55-year-old postmaster and hero of Carrie Brown's new novel, Lamb in Love, makes his first appearance poking out from behind a chestnut tree, hoping to catch a glimpse of Vida Stephen, to whom he is afraid to declare his love.
For he is of such generous and unimpeachable heart that he proves to be as beguiling as the novel that bears his name.
One of Brown's three children has cerebral palsy, and although her daughter's impairments are all physical, not mental, Brown says she and her husband have had "plenty of experience in the community of the disabled."
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 Bonjour Paris : Travel, Hotels, Food, Wine, Restaurants, Paris France - The Literary World of e. e. cummings
He and a shipmate named William Slater Brown (who would later become one of Cummings’ friends) were accidentally left behind when the rest of the crew disembarked at a suburban station instead.
Cummings and Brown were the only two to reach the correct destination at the Hôtel du Palais, headquarters of the Norton Harjes Croix-Rouge Américaine in Paris.
Cummings and William Slater Brown were both audacious letter writers and had written home criticizing both the war and the French.
www.bonjourparis.com /Articles/Profiles_and_Interviews/The_Literary_World_of_e._e._cummings   (972 words)

  
 William & Nina Matheson Books, Inc. - Catalogue 12 - Fiction & Literature : books published between the 1850s and 1950s
Original pinkish brown cloth, lettered in gold on the spine and with two gold decorations on the front cover.
Browning of the half~title and title~page from acid migration from the frontispiece, otherwise fine in rubbed and chipped dust jacket with silverfish markings on the rear panel.
Corners bumped, first and last leaves browned from acid migration, former owner's last name neatly penned in at the head of the title~page in both volumes.
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 Pa Freemason January 04 - William Slater II Youngest Grand Master
William Slater II - Youngest Grand Master in 100 Years to lead the Grand Lodge
Listed to the left, in order of their service as Grand Master, and the year they served are the youngest men to lead the Fraternity.
William Slater II Grand Master] [Grand Lodge] [Fraternity News] [Masonic Villages] [Index of Issues]
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His father and grandfather, Dr. Frederick Augustus Brown and Dr. Frederick Davis Brown, were physicians in Webster, adds Ms.
Frederick Augustus Brown married Katherine Slater, Samuel Slater’s granddaughter.
Their children were William Slater Brown, Katherine Brown, Joyce Waters Brown, and Frederick Brown, who lived in the George Slater homestead at North Village with Lydia and Ruth Slater for many years.
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 E.E. CUMMINGS: POET AND PAINTER
William James and Josiah Royce were neighbors, and Charles Eliot Norton had a wooded estate nearby that bordered on Somerville and its Irish tenements.
Brown, lately a student at Columbia, was a pacifist proud of knowing the anarchist Emma Goldman.
Brown fell victim to scurvy, but he was released before the disease had crippled him.
www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/cummings.html   (4560 words)

  
 PAL: Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
PS1134.M4 Wieland ; or, The transformation together with Memoirs of Carwin the biloquist: a fragment by Charles Brockden Brown.
Bennett, Maurice J. Portrait of the Artist in Eighteenth Century America: Charles Brockden Brown's Memoirs of Stephen Calvert." William and Mary Quarterly 39.3 (Jul 1982): 492-507.
Slater, John F. "The Sleepwalker and the Great Awakening: Brown's Edgar Huntly and Jonathan Edwards." Papers on Language and Literature 19.2 (Sprg 1983): 199-217.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap2/brown.html   (1160 words)

  
 e e cummings Biography
After several weeks in Paris EEC and Brown are assigned to ambulance duty on Noyon sector.
Brown's letters home arouse suspicions of French army censor.
On his father's urging, EEC begins, in September, to write The Enormous Room, an account of his and Brown's experiences in the La Ferte Mace prison.
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 University of Delaware: A MANUSCRIPT SAMPLER: Twentieth Century Literature
In this postcard written to his friend, the novelist and journalist William Slater Brown, the poet announces his temporary return to his native Cleveland.
Photograph of William Butler Yeats taken on his arrival in New York for the start of his American lecture tour in 1903.
Tennessee Williams." The script serves as a good example of the extensive revision process Williams went through with his writing.
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Slater Records Has Put The "Lord Have Mercy" Back In The Music
A relationship with Slater Records will be one of mutual goals and trust.
We focus on the most effective methods to get our product in the right hands.
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 Descendants of CHAD BROWN
6 Phebe Brown b: 1758 in Johnston, RI d: Mar 04, 1784 in Johnston, RI 6 Ruth Brown b: 1760 in Johnston, RI d: Jul 09, 1802 in Johnston, RI +Benjamin Whipple b: Abt 1760 in Plainfield, CT d:
2 James Brown b: Abt 1640 d: Aft Apr 20, 1681 in Newport, RI +Elizabeth Carr b: 1646 in Newport, RI d: Dec 08, 1697 in Newport, RI 3 James Brown b: Abt 1670 d:
3 Esek Brown b: Mar 08, 1678/79 in Newport, RI d: Dec 04, 1772 in Swansea, MA +Mercy Carr b: Oct 07, 1683 in Newport, RI d: Dec 1776 in Swansea, MA 4 James Brown b: Nov 21, 1719 d:
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 Limerick Directory of 1769
John Jackson; William Battier; William Cox; John Gas.
William Cotton; William Lynch; Francis Browne; John Fortescue; William Parker; Edward Supple; Thomas Saunders; Hugh Parker; Oliver Shorne; William MacIntosh
George Robinson, Daniel Blake; William Connell; Nathaniel Russell; Stephen Goggin; John Dennison; Jasper Ruth; Jasper Brown; Barth.
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