“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

C. C. SLAUGHTER, Dallas, Texas, is ranked with the wealthiest and most 
successful stock men of the State, and also has large banking interests.  His 
whole life has been passed in Texas, and devoted to the business in which he 
has made such signal success.

C. C. Slaughter was born in Sabine county, Texas, February 9, 1837, son of 
George W. and Sarah (Mason) Slaughter, who are now honored residents of 
Palo Pinto county, Texas, the former seventy-eight and the latter sixty-six years 
of age.  Mrs. Slaughter is a daughter of John Mason and a relative of John Y. 
Mason, of the Mason and Dixon Line.  George W. Slaughter was born in 
Mississippi, and came to Texas with his parents in 1835, and for some time was 
engaged in farming and stock-raising.  The greater part of his life, however, has 
been spent as an itinerant Baptist minister, and as such he has been the means 
of accomplishing untold good.  He graduated at Brush College, has been pastor 
of many a frontier charge, and still has regular work, preaching every Sabbath.  
He took part in the Indian and Texas wars, and was well and favorably known to 
General Houston, frequently commanding that General’s scouts.  He is indeed a 
pioneer of the pioneers.

The subject of our sketch is the oldest of a family of ten children.  One was 
accidentally killed by a mule.  The others are all living.

When he was eighteen or twenty years of age, young Slaughter engaged in the 
stock business in company with his father, under the firm name of G. W. & C. C. 
Slaughter, raising, buying, driving and shipping stock.  This partnership continued 
some ten years.  They were also connected with the firm of McLearan & 
Slaughter, under which name they bought goods in New York and sold them in 
Texas for two years, doing an extensive mercantile business and ranking with the 
most prominent firms of that day.  The next business association with which Mr. 
Slaughter was connected was that of banking in Dallas, with Colonel Hughes, J. 
R. Couts and T. C. Jorden stockbrokers.  After a few years C. C. Slaughter & Co. 
bought out the other stockholders and continued the banking business.  Dallas at 
that time being the seat of his operations, he moved here, and here he has since 
resided.

The firm of C. C. Slaughter & Co. opened and conducted the City Bank, the 
banking firm being authorized by the States in 1871.  Colonel Hughes and G. W. 
Slaughter bought out the other partners, excepting Mr. C. C. Slaughter, and the 
two continued business under the same name, Colonel Hughes taking charge of 
the banking interests, and Mr. Slaughter the buying, selling and shipping of stock, 
etc.  In 1879 they dissolved partnership, and since that year our subject has been 
doing business alone.  The City Bank was subsequently merged into the City 
National Bank of Dallas.  Mr. Slaughter remained with it until 1884, when he 
resigned and obtained a charter and had stock taken for the American National 
Bank and United States Depository, and of this institution he is vice-president.

Mr. Slaughter was first married in 1860 to Miss Cynthia A. Jowell, daughter of 
James Jowell, of Palo Pinto county, Texas.  Mrs. Slaughter was a devoted 
Christian woman and a member of the Baptist Church.  She died in 1876, leaving 
a family of five children, as follows:  George M., a prominent farmer and stock-
raiser of Hale county, Texas, managing the Running Water ranch; Minnie, who is 
a graduate of the old Virginia Institute at Staunton, and who is 1886 spent six 
months in visiting various points of interest in Europe, is now the accomplished 
wife of Dr. G. T. Veal; Dela, wife of G. G. Wright, a prominent attorney of Dallas, 
has two children:  Gilbert Long and Florence; Robert E. Lee, a stock-raiser and 
manager of the Long ranch in Dawson county, Texas, married and has one child, 
- Robert E. Lee, Jr.; and Edgar Dick, now attending the University of Texas, 
preparing for the law.  In 1877 Mr. Slaughter was united in married to Miss Carrie 
Averill, daughter of Rev. A. M. Averill, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, her father 
being a noted divine in the Baptist Church.  They have four children:  C. C., 
Alexander Averill, Carrie R. and an infant.  The two sons, C. C. and A. A. are on 
the ranches with their brothers, leaning the business with them.

Mr. Slaughter and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.  They have given 
their children good educational advantages and take solid comfort in their 
welfare.

Mr. Slaughter is an unassuming business man, has a mind of broad gauge, is 
very decided in his view on church and State, but is willing that everybody should 
be entitled to his views – thinking nothing less of any one for his opinions – 
provided they are conscientious.  He is a liberal contributor to all charitable 
purposes and trusts the world will be none the worse by his being in it.

Submitted by: L. Pingel