Loton Horton SLAWSON

1874 - 1924  (50 years)

• Name	Loton Horton SLAWSON  [2]
  	Middletown Daily Herald (Middletown, New York) Monday, May 5, 1924 L. SLAWSON FOUND DEAD ON SUNDAY Loton Horton Slawson, head of the New York real estate firm Loton H. Slawson Company, died Sunday, at 1 am at his home in New York City, aged fifty years. He had been unusually active in real estate development since he established his firm, twenty-five years ago, and he had threatened serious prostration which compelled him to stop work for awhile but he recovered to nearly normal and with the marked activities prevailing since the war, had lately been more occupied then ever. He was at his office on Friday and a business matter took a portion of his time Saturday. He retired in usual health on Saturday night and was found dead by his wife a few hours later as mentioned. Heart failure was the cause. Mr. Slawson was born in New York City, February 28, 1874. His father, Daniel Sayer Slawson was the founder of the milk firm of Slawson Brothers which later developed into the Sheffield Farms-Slawson-Decker Company, now the well known Sheffield Farms Company. His mother was Sarah E. daughter of the late Lemuel H. Slawson, this city. Mr. Slawson recently sold the family home at White Plans where he had lived for eighteen years and removed to 70 (?) East 77th street New York. He is survived by his wife; who was Miss Rhoda Graham, New York City; a daughter Muriel, who was married a year ago - soon after graduating at Smith College - to Joseph Bruening, who home is at Wheeling, West Virginia; Daniel Sayer, 20, a junior at Dartmouth; and Agnes, 15, at home; George L. Slawson, senior member of the real estate firm of Slawson & Hobbs, West 72nd St, New Yrk, is a brother and Mrs. Fred G. Hobbs, wife of the junior member of the firm is a sister. Another sister Mrs. O.A. Woodruff, Scarsdale, John Wallace Slawson was associated with his brother Loton in the L.H.S. Company. The funeral service arranged by John Wallace Slawson, who ...here yesterday will be held at the home in New York Tuesday evening, and the funeral party, bearing the body, will leave by automobile at eight Wednesday morning for the city where burial will be in Hillside. Their arrival is expected about 11:30 daylight saving. Mr. Slawson was a man of high character with a large circle of friends who will sincerely ...his death. Mr. Slawson was a brillant progressive business mand of high character, and his cordial manner and generous nature gained for him a large circle of friends who will sincerely lament his death. SERVICES FOR LOTON SLAWSON TONIGHT Funeral services for Loton H. Slawson, real estate operator, President of the Loton H. Slawson Company, 350 Madison Avenue, will be held at 8 o'clock this evening at his late residence, 70 East Seventy-seventh Street, where he died Sunday of heart disease, at the age of 50. Burial will be in Middletown, NY, at noon tomorrow. LOTON SLAWSON DIES; REAL ESTATE MAN, 51 He Had Directed Many Important Transactions in the Park Avenue District. Loton H. Slawson of 70 East Seventy-seventh Street, one of the largest dealers in real estate in the city, President and Treasurer of the Loton H. Slawson Company of 350 Madison Avenue, died of heart disease yesterday at his residence in his fifty-first year. He was also President and Director of the Brurell Realty Corporation, the Cuyler realty Company and the Pullman Holding Company. His brother, George L. Slawson, is Vice President of the Realty firm of Slawson & Hobbs of 162 West Seventy-second Street. Mr. Slawson had directed many important transactions in real estate in the exclusive residential sections of the city particularly on the east side, in the Park Avenue neighborhood. Last month he completed the assembling of a 4,100 foot plot at the north west corner of Lexington Avenue and Seventy-fourth Street, announcement following closely the news that he had assembled an 11,000 foot plot on the southeast corner of park Avenue and Seventy-fourth Street. Mr. Slawson was born in this city, a son of Daniel Thayer and Sarah E. Slawson. Soon after his graduation from City College he entered the real estate business and later established his own firm. He became an operator in residential properties on a large scale and was one of the first man to engage in the building of cooperative apartments. In 1898 he married Miss Reba Graham, who survives, with a son, Daniel, a junior at Dartmouth, and two daughters, Miss Agnes Slawson, who lived with her parents, and Mrs. Joseph Brunning of Wheeling, W. Va. Mr. Slawson was a member of the Lotos and Uptown Clubs and the Real Estate Board of New York. Services will be held at the residence at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. [1]
  Birth	28 Feb 1874	New York City, New York   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1880	Living with parents in New York, New York   [3]
  Death	05 May 1924	New York City, New York   [2]
  Burial	Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, New York   [2]
  Person ID	I51819	Main Tree
  Last Modified	10 Aug 2013

  
  

  Father	Daniel Sayre SLAWSON,   b. 16 Sep 1838, Orange County, New York d. 24 Jul 1901, New York City, New York (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Sarah Ellen SLAWSON,   b. 07 May 1841, Greenville, Orange County, New York d. 27 Sep 1923, Hartsdale, New York (Age 82 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	14 Dec 1861	Greenville, Orange County, New York   [2]
  Family ID	F21158	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rebecca GRAHAM,   b. 23 Jun 1877   d. Aft Oct 1945, New York City, New York (Age > 68 years)
  Marriage	20 Oct 1897	New York City, New York   [2]
  Children	1. Muriel SLAWSON,   b. 15 May 1900, New York City, New York d. Dec 1985, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia (Age 85 years)  [Natural]   2. Daniel Sayre SLAWSON   3. Radford SLAWSON,   b. 07 Feb 1899, New York City, New York d. 18 Mar 1901, New York City, New York (Age 2 years)  [Natural]   4. Agnes Graham SLAWSON,   b. 10 Dec 1908, White Plains, New York d. 26 Oct 2005, Damariscotta, Lincoln County, Maine (Age 96 years)  [Natural]
  Family ID	F21220	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Burial - - Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, New York  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S5645] Obituary Notice for Loton Horton Slawson. [S03336] Slason-Slauson-Slawson-Slosson Family by George C. Slawson dated 1946. [S00683] 1880 Census New York, New York County, New York.