History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog

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of the promoters of the Slade Mill, the first to be erected, of the group of
factories located in the Southern district of the city, the company being
organized in 1871; of which he was a director and president. He was also
a member of the board of directors of the Stafford Mills. He owned stock
in various other manufacturing concerns of Fall River. In 1860 he was
chosen a director of what became the Fall River National Bank.
The political affiliations of Mr. Slade were with the Republican party;
and while never a seeker of political office, his fellow townsmen frequently
brought him into public service. For many years he was an efficient
selectman of his town. In 1859, and again in 1864, he represented
Somerset in the General Court. He served during the first term on the
committee on Agriculture, and during the second term was a member of
the committee on Public Charitable Institutions, and was one of the
committee of arrangements for the burial of Senator Charles Sumner. In
1863 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and in that body was
a member of the committee on Agriculture. He was ever a staunch supporter
of the cause of temperance. He had large experience in the settlements
of estates, and served as commissioner for the divison of estates.
Mr. Slade was married Oct. 5, 1842, to Mary, born Sept. 16, 1815, in
Portsmouth, R. I., daughter of Asa and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Sherman.
Their five children were: Caroline E. born Jan. 3, 1846, married Hezekiah
A. Brayton March 25, 1868; Abigail L., born March 15, 1848 married
James T. Mihie, of Fall River Jan. 6, 1869 and died Nov. 5, 1872; Mary,
born July 12, 1852, married Velona W. Haughwout, Sept. 12, 1872, and
died Aug. 15, 1877, leaving three children: Mary, Alice, and Elizabeth.
Of these, Mary and Elizabeth died in young womanhood, and Alice is the
wife of Preston C. West, and resides in Canada.
Sarah Sherman died young Sept. 26, 1856 as also did Anna Mitchell,
Nov. 15, 1858; William Lawton Slade died July 29, 1895.
(VII) William Walter Slade was born at the old ferry house at
Slade's ferry, Somerset, April 26, 1843, son of Jonathan and Caroline
Brayton (Winslow) Slade, and representative of the seventh generation of
the family in America. He was educated in the schools of his native town,
and at the Friends' School, Providence, R. I. For several years he engaged
in the wholesale grocery business in Providence; but the last years of his
life have been spent, for most part as a farmer. For eighteen years he
resided at Touisset; then since 1900 he has made his home on Brayton
Avenue, Somerset.
Feb. 20, 1872, Mr. Slade married Ida Alcey Wilbur, daughter of
Albert Leonard Wilbur, and they have had children as foUows: Caroline
Winslow, born Dec. 22, 1872; Susan Wilbur, born Dec. 2, 1874, who married
Harry F. Hardy, of Providence, R. I.; Emeline Hooper, born Nov. 9,
1876, who married Roy G. Lewis, of Fall River, Mass., and has a son John
Bowker, born Jan. 1, 1904; Jonathan, born Oct. 5, 1878, who died May 18,
1883; Lydia Ann, born Dec. 1, 1884; and Albert Leonard, born July 14,
1887.
(VII) DavidF. Slade, son of Jonathan and Emeline (Hooper) Slade,
was born in Somerset Nov. 5, 1855. He was educated in the district schools
of his native town, and in the Fall River High School, graduating from the
latter in 1876. He entered Brown University the fall of the same year, having
as one of his classmates President Faunce of that institution, graduated
therefrom in 1880, and graduated from the Boston University Law School
in June, 1883. He was immediately admitted to the Bristol county bar,
and formally took up the practice of his profession in Fall River in August
of the same year, at the outset forming a partnership with James F.
Jackson, which lasted until 1905. In 1891, Richard P. Borden became
associated with the firm, and two years later the style became Jackson,