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Salter, William – Sammons, Thomas

Salter, William

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 17, 1821, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Since 1846 he has been pastor of the congregational church of Burlington, Iowa. He is the author of The Life of James W. Grimes.

Salter, William D

naval officer, was born in 1794 in New York city. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1809, became lieutenant in 1814, was made master-commandant in 1831, captain in 1839, and commodore on the retired list in 1862. He died Jan. 3, 1869, in Elizabeth, N. J.

Saltonstall, Dudley

naval officer, was born Sept. 8, 1738, in New London, Conn. He was a commodore in the continental navy. He died in 1796, in the West Indies.

Saltonstall, Gurdon

clergyman, governor, was born March 27, 1666, in Haverhill, Mass. He was governor of Connecticut from 1707 till his death, and he bequeathed one thousand pounds to the university of Haverhill to educate students for the ministry. He died Oct. 1, 1724.

Saltonstall, Leverett

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 13, 1783, in Haverhill, Mass. He was a state senator in 1831, and was mayor of Salem, Mass., from 1836 to 1838. He was a presidential elector in 1837, and frequently served in the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from 1838 to 1843. He died May 8, 1845, in Salem, Mass.

Saltonstall, Leverett

lawyer, genealogist, was born March 16, 1825, in Salem, Mass. In 1885 he was appointed collector of customs for the port of Boston and Charlestown. He is an active member of the Massachusetts Historical society and of other learned bodies, and compiled a genealogical history of his family.

Saltus, Edgar Evertson

author, was born in June, 1858, in New York city. He is a novelist of New York city, and the author of Balzac: a Study; The Philosophy of Disenchantment; The Anatomy of Negation; Mr. Incoul's Misadventure; The Truth about Tristram Varick; Eden; A Transaction in Hearts; When Dreams Come True; and The Pace that Kills.

Saltus, Francis Saltus

poet, was born in 1849 in New York. He was a poet much of whose life was passed abroad. He was the author of Honey and Gall; Shadows and Ideals; The Witch of Endor; Romance of the Opera; Kings of Song; The Bayadere, and Other Sonnets.

He died June 25, 1889.

Salyer, John Preston

lawyer, state senator, was born Feb. 9, 1855, in Floyd, Ky. In 1893 he was elected from the thirty-fourth district of Kentucky as a member of the state senate, for the period of four years. 4

Salzmann, Joseph

clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 17, 1819, in Austria. He succeeded Archbishop Henni as president of the Theological seminary of St. Francis. He was one of the founders of the Seebote, a German periodical published at Milwaukee, to which he was a frequent contributor. He died Jan. 17, 1874, in Milwaukee, Wis.

Samford, William J

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1844, in Greenville, Ga. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1875; was a presidential elector in 1876; and was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.

Sammons, Thomas

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1803 to 1807, and again from 1809 to 1813.