received assistance from the fund, as did some Southern urban school boards. Other The John Fox Slater House in Norwich, Connecticut is another legacy. His son William A. Slater presented the Slater Memorial Museum to Norwich Free Academy in memory of his father. The John Fox Slater Elementary School in Washington, D.C., now closed, was named in his honor. The building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. See also John Slater (industrialist) References Sources Citations 1815 births 1884 deaths University and college founders People from Windham County, Connecticut People from North Smithfield, Rhode Island American Congregationalists People from Jewett City, Connecticut 19th-century American philanthropists