William Slater (c. 1794 - ?) was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Slater was born in England.[1]
Slater was received on trial as a circuit rider in 1822, having spent the previous year working for the presiding elder of the Upper Canada district, William Case.[2] That year, he was assigned to the Thames circuit, where he rode alongside John Parker.[3] The pair oversaw an increase in church membership of twenty-five people.[1] In 1823, he was assigned to the Yonge Street circuit, where he rode alongside John Ryerson. Circuit membership increased that year by 31 to 330.[4]
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edit- Carroll, John (1869). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. II. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office.