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176 History of Swansea
greater part of his life. He died at the age of thirty-nine years. He married
Patience, daughter of David and Ehzabeth (Luther) Bosworth, and they
had five children: Ruth A., who married John H. Pierce and resides in
Lawrence, Mass.; Mary J., who married Nathaniel B. Horton; David B.,
deceased; Gardner Luther, deceased; and George Hail, deceased.
For many years Mrs. Horton resided during the summer at her
cottage in Tiverton, R. L, overlooking the waters of Mount Hope bay and
the Seaconnet River. During the rest of the year she hved in a new house
which she built at Hortonville after the death of her husband, while her son
Arthur resides at the old homestead. Mrs. Horton died Mar. 24, 1913.
(V) Adin Baker Horton, son of Nathaniel B., and Mary J. (Bufifinton)
Horton, was born Nov. 7, 1855. On June 26, 1879; he married Hannah
S. Hale, daughter of William B. and Ehzabeth Hale, and she died in
October, 1909, the mother of four children: Alvah H., born Sept. 7, 1880
(married Etta Allen of Assonet, and has one son, John Allen) ; Mary E.,
Oct. 1, 1881, (married Robert Hewitt, of Middleboro, and has one son,
Bertram Adin); Angie B., April 12, 1883; and Nathaniel B., Dec. 18,
1891.
The Slade Family
For over two hundred years—during almost the life- time of Fall
River and its entire industrial history—the name Slade has been continually
identified with that life, especially in agriculture, from which the
name was derived and prominent also in other lines of effort in that great
city of spindles. In 1812-13, when the real substantial pioneer estabhshments
in the cloth making business of Fall River were projected and completed—the
Troy Cotton and Woolen Manufactory and the Fall River
Manufactory—began the Slade name in this connection, Eber Slade of
Somerset being one of the most prominent promoters of one of the corporations;
he became its first treasurer and filled the position until in the
middle twenties. WiUiam Slade of Somerset was one of the owners of the
site of these first estabhshments, and was himself an original proprietor of
the Pocasset and Watuppa Manufacturing Companies. The brothers
Jonathan and WiUiam Lawton Slade were among the founders of the celebrated
cotton mills of Fall River, both becoming presidents of the corporation.
John Palmer Slade, another of Somerset's sons, figured largely not
only in the industrial life of the city but in other lines, becoming president
of both, the Shove and Laurel Lake Mills. George W. Slade, one of the
"forty-niners" of the Pacific coast, was for full fifty years one of the
extensive and wholesale merchants of Fall River and his name, too, is
coupled with the city's industrial fife. And of younger generations one or
more of the sons of some of these are at this time officially and otherwise
connected with this industrial life and in other fines, notably Leonard N.
deceased and Everett N. Slade, of the firm of John P. Slade & Son, insurance
and real estate; David F. Slade, deceased, was a member of the law
firm of Slade & Borden, and active in the affairs of the city and of the State;
and Abbott E. Slade is now treasurer of the Laurel Lake Mills.
This southeastern Massachusetts Slade family, while for a brief
period at Newport, is a full-fledged Massachusetts family, a Swansea-
Somerset family, prominent and influential here for two hundred years and
more. There follows in detail from the earhest known American ancestor
some family historv and genealogy of these Slades, and in England as far
back as 1350.
(I) William Slade, the first of the fine in this country, is said to have
been born in Wales, Great Britain, the son of Edward, of whom nothing