BIOS: E. J. Salyards, Maysville, Mason Co., KY

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File submitted by: Diana Flynn <ivie@tima.com> Date: 4-14-98
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Salyards, E. J. - Maysville, Mason Co Page 612

E. J. SALYARDS of Orleans, Ind., was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1820, a son of
Edward and Phoeba (Gibson) Salyards, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of
Pennsylvania.  Edward was what is known as an iron-master in Pittsburgh, whence he
came to Cincinnati with his family and stock of  hardware in a keel-boat about the
year 1816.  E. J. Salyards received his education in the early schools around his
boyhood home.  About the year 1836, he moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, and engaged in the
grocery business. From there he went to Maysville, Ky., where he did a marble business
from 1844 to 1850, when he moved to New Albany, Ind. and a year later to Orleans. Here
he established his present marble business and has since then added the hotel,
blacksmithing, merchandizing and furniture store.  In 1871 he received a stroke of
paralysis and since then his son Edward has conducted the business.  He has been twice
married, the first time in 1841, to Maria Buffington, a native of Buffington's Island,
near Marietta, Ohio.  Her death occurred in 1851, after she had borne him three
children, these two, Edward M. and Maria J., now living. By his second wife, Rebecca,
whom he married in 1852, he is the father of eight children, only five now surviving,
Oscar C., Ida, Charles R., Frank M. and Harry G.  Mr. Salyards is a member of the
Masonic fraternity and belongs to  Orleans Lodge No. 153, and is an earnest Republican
in politics.