Researching Samuel Slocum
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 16 people with the Slocum surname? In that year Slocum was ranked number 3563 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Samuel means "asked of God" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Samuel Slocum on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Samuel Slocum and the Slocum Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 11 people with the Slocum surname in the UK? Slocum is now ranked number 4031 for popularity in the UK. |
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Samuel Slocum
Samuel Slocum (March 4, 1792 - January 26, 1861), was an American inventor from Poughkeepsie (city), New York Poughkeepsie, New York. He was born in Jamestown, RI, son of Peleg Slocum and Anne Dyer Slocum. He was raised in Usquepaugh, RI, a village in South Kingstown, RI, where a Mr. William Lockwood sometime after 1772, first invented the common pin with a head, to keep it from slipping through cloth. Samuel was the 6th of 8 children. He worked as a carpenter before he decided to move to London and become a pin maker. He married Susan Stanton Slocum in 1817 at Richmond, RI, and had three children, Samuel Dyer Slocum, Mary Slocum, and John Stanton Slocum.
Samuel Slocum traveled to England. While in England, he invented a machine for the production of pins. These pins later became flat head pins (similar to staples).
A short time later he moved back to the United States, to Poughkeepsie, NY and formed a pin manufacturing company, Slocum and Jillion, which invented a "Machine for Sticking Pins into Paper", which is often believed to be the first stapler. In fact, this patent from September 30, 1841, Patent #2275, is for a device used for packaging pins.
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