Mary Elizabeth SLAWSON

Mary married S. Davis CHILDS, III on 15 Jun 1936 in Lombard, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"History of Illinois and Her People" by Professor George W. Smith, M.A. -

James H. SLAWSON, engineer and business man, for the greater part of his active life has been identified with the iron and steel industry.
Mr. Slawson was born at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1875, son of William Bowers and Lorinda (Snow) Slawson. His paternal grandfather, John Lloyd Slawson, was of New England parentage and was the first white child born in Cass County, Michigan. From Michigan John L. Slawson moved to Cleveland. The original Slawson homestead in cleveland was in the old University Heights, on the South Side, now known as West Fourteenth Street, this being the locality in which James H. Slawson was born. On the maternal as well as the paternal side his people have long been prominent in educational affairs at Cleveland, and were active in founding the public school system in that city. Miss Sarah E. Slawson, sister of James H. Slawson, has been for many years head of an institutional school in the slum districts of Cleveland.
James H. Slawson was educated for the engineering profession, and his early experience in the iron and steel industry was at Cleveland. He was connected with similar industries in the Mahoning Valley and in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Slawson located in Chicago in 1910, and is now connected with the Chicago Malleable Castings Company, in charge of the railway department.
Mr. Slawson is a member of the Union League Club, Engineers Club of New York,Lotus Club of New York, the Milwaukee Club of Milwaukee, Cleveland Athletic Club and the American Iron and Steel Institute, of which Judge E.H.Gary is president.
Mr. Slawson resides in the village of Glen Ellyn, west of Chicago. For several years he has been active in local affairs, and in the sping of 1925 was elected president of the Village Board. He had the distinction of leading a successful campaign, and for the first time in many years an opposition ticket was elected in that municipality. Mr. Slawson has been deeply interested in the plans and movements for the coordination and direction of growth and development among the suburban districts surrounding Chicago, so as to safeguard the future as well as the present welfare of the individual communities. In August, 1925, Mr.Slawson as president of the Glen Ellyn Village Board appointed a Plan Commission for that village, which is cooperating with the Chicago Regional Plan Commission. Mr. Slawson married Miss Gertrude F. Hardy and has one daughter Miss Mary Elizabeth Slawson.

James married Gertrude M. HARDY on 9 Aug 1899 in North Baltimore, Ohio. Gertrude was born on 14 Mar 1875. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of William and Emmeline Susan Hardy