Biography of 	SALOMON, Lucien F., M.D., Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 389-390.  Edited
by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical
Association.

Salomon, Lucien F., M. D., of New Orleans, was born Aug. 21, 1850, at New
Orleans; son of William Salomon, a native of New Orleans (Dec. 25, 1822;
died Dec. 3, 1881), and of Francoise Elodie De Gruy Salomon, born at New
Orleans, May, 1830; died July 4, 1886.  Dr. Salomon's grandfather, a native
of England, came to New Orleans in his early manhood, and conducted a
clothing store on Levee, now North Peters, street.  He married Sarah Marx,
of New Orleans, who had emigrated to that city with her parents, from
Holland.  William Salomon, father of Dr. Salomon, followed for a time the
profession of engraver.  When the Civil war broke out, he refused to take
the oath of allegiance to the United States, and after the Federal troops
had taken New Orleans, Mr. Salomon was ordered by Gen. Ben. Butler to leave
the city.  With his wife and 7 children, the Confederate sympathizer
embarked on a schooner bound for Pascagoula, Miss., and thence went by
wagon to Mobile, Ala., and from Mobile, by flat car, to Meridian and next
to Jackson, Miss.  The family moved to Tangipahoa, La., where a
brother-in-law of Mr. Salomon, a planter, resided, and at Tangipahoa Mr.
Salomon enlisted in the Southern army and was in active service until the
end of the war, when he returned to New Orleans and was a cotton weigher up
to the time of his death, in 1881.  Dr. Salomon is one of 12 children, 7
boys and 5 girls.  He was educated in the public schools of New Orleans;
graduated from the high school; took up the study of medicine in the
medical department of the University of Louisiana, now Tulane; served as
interne at the charity hospital for 18 months.  He graduated in medicine in
1872, and at once began practicing in New Orleans.  Dr. Salomon was
visiting surgeon and physician at different times at the charity hospital,
and adjunct professor of surgery in the charity hospital school of medicine
(1874-1877).  Served as secretary of the state board of health (1886-1894).

 In 1885, at the request of the government of Jamaica, Dr. Salomon was sent
to investigate the sanitary conditions of that island; and in 1898
performed a similar duty for the Island of Porto Rico.  He was present at
the evacuation of San Juan during the Spanish-American war.  During yellow
fever epidemics, he went to several localities to attend to the sick.  In
1874, the doctor was commissioned acting assistant surgeon in the United
States army and was detailed to Fort Barrancas where yellow fever was
prevailing among the soldiers.  During Pres. Roosevelt's administration,
Dr. Salomon was appointed, in 1906, United States Pension Examiner, a
position he still holds.  Previous to the organization of the Orleans
parish Medical society, he was a member, and president for 2 terms, of the
New Orleans Medical & Surgical association.  An act that won for Dr.
Salomon the grateful thanks of the people of New Orleans and the
congratulations of Charles A. Dana, proprietor of the New York Sun, and the
hearty approval of the Illinois Central R. R. Co., through its
representative, Mr. Clark, was when, in 1879, being a delegate from
Louisiana to the meeting of the Sanitary Council, of the Mississippi Valley
he stood up nobly for New Orleans.  Owing to lack of confidence in sources
of information as to the sanitary status of New Orleans, the meeting was
ready to adopt a resolution providing for quarantine against New Orleans
from May 1 to Nov. 1.  Dr. Salomon spoke for 2 days against that
resolution, and finally succeeded in defeating it.  Throughout the South,
Dr. Salomon is highly considered as an expert in typhoid fever, of which he
has made a special study, as well as of other fevers, in the treatment of
which he is very successful.  He is a member of the Orleans parish Medical
association, the Louisiana State Medical society, American Public Health
association, the Conference of State Boards of Health.  In 1885, Dr.
Salomon married Charlotte Cooley Stone, widow of Dr. Warren Stone, Jr., of
New Orleans, and daughter of Judge Ebenezer Cooley, of Pointe Coupée, La.
Dr. Salomon is affiliated with no political party, as he prefers to be
independent of any faction.