- L. D. SALISBURY, farmer, Sec. 5; P.O. Clinton; born in Madison
Co., N.Y., Jan. 10, 1815;
- son of George SALISBURY, a popular hotel-keeper at Ericville
and also at Woodstock in same State; he died in 1841, at the
age of 55; Samuel, his father, was a soldier in the Revolution;
Mr. L. D. SALISBURY was with his father until about 1839. Married,
March 28, 1841, Christine HAYNES, daughter of Deacon John HAYNES,
a prominent farmer in New York; have had two children - Lorenzo
A. (married Mary Ann HAZELWOODD, and is living in Boone Co.,
Ill.), Charles A. (married Martha E. FULKERSON, daughter of Benjamin
FULKERSON). Mr. L. D. SALISBURY was successfully engaged in
hotel business in Preble, Cortland Co., N.Y., seven years, and
then in Oswego Co., till fall of 1855, when he came West, and
finally bought 280 acres in Clinton, and moved on to the farm
in spring of 1856; now has about 85 acres under best of cultivation.
Mr. SALISBURY gave his aid and support to the Union army. Has
been Chairman of Town Board of Supervisors several times. A
brother, Frank SALISBURY, is one of the oldest and best-known
hotel men in the State; kept hotel at Syracuse and Beloit most
of the time for thirty years; George, his son, is connected with
a Chicago paper-house; he was the champion billiard-player of
the State of Wisconsin at one time.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 786.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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