Slayton, L. Cary

L. CARY SLAYTON.

  L. Cary Slayton, general agent at New Haven for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, was born in Lapeer, Michigan, December 31, 1872, a son of Eugene T. Slayton, who was a native of Pennsylvania and a representative of one of the early New England families, the ancestral line being traced back to Thomas Slayton, who came to America in 1690 and located in Boston, the family home being established at East Brookfield. Thomas Slayton was but a youth at the time when he emigrated to the new world. He took up the profession of teaching and also gave much attention to agricultural pursuits. The great-great-grandfather of L. Cary Slayton was Captain Reuben Slayton, who served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. During the greater part of his life Eugene T. Slayton was a successful lumberman of Michigan, occupying a prominent position in business circles there. He was also active as a republican leader and filled various local positions of honor and trust. He died in November, 1913, while on a hunting trip in the forests of Michigan. He was an active sportsman and for many years was president of a hunting club. He had reached the age of seventy-two years when called to his final rest and is still survived by his widow, who bore the maiden name of Julia B. Abbott. She was born in Michigan and traces her ancestry back to Massachusetts, where George Abbott, a native of England, established his home in 1632. Daniel Abbott and his father, Jacob Abbott, served through the French and Indian war and the Revolutionary war. Through his mother’s line L. Cary Slayton is also a direct descendant of William Bradford, the first colonial governor of Massachusetts. Mrs. Slayton still survives her husband and resides in the old home at Lapeer, Michigan. She is the mother of three children who are yet living, the two daughters of the family being Mrs. Harry Demorest, living in Flint, Michigan, and Mrs. D. Leon Schunemann of Lapeer.

  The only son, L. Cary Slayton, completed the public and high school courses at Lapeer, Michigan, and afterward became a student in the Agricultural College at Lansing, Michigan. Starting upon his business career he first entered the employ of the Michigan Central Railroad with the intention of learning civil engineering. He was afterward connected with commercial lines as an employe of a hardware company in Detroit, and from the age of twenty-four years he has been engaged in the life insurance business as a representative of old line companies.

  On the 11th of August, 1896, Mr. Slayton was married in Detroit, Michigan, to Miss Katherine A. Whitman, a native of Chicago, Illinois, and a daughter of Martin I. and Alice (Clark) Whitman, both of whom are now deceased. They have four children: Harry Whitman, who was born in Detroit, January 3, 1898; Eric Randolph, born in New Haven, September 1, 1901; Cecelia G., born at West Haven, August 2, 1904; and Janet A., born at West Haven, November 1, 1911.

  Mr. and Mrs. Slayton are consistent members of the Plymouth church, and in his political views Mr. Slayton is a republican but without desire or ambition for office. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and he belongs to the Quinnipiac Club and to the New Haven Country Club. While the opportunity was given him to secure for himself a good education he has since that time been dependent entirely upon his own resources, and his ability, energy and determination have brought him to the front so that he now occupies an enviable position in insurance circles of New Haven.
 
 

Modern History of New Haven
and 
Eastern New Haven County

Illustrated

Volume II

New York – Chicago
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 
1918

pgs 685 - 686

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