Chariton County, Missouri Biographical Sketch - JUDGE LUCIUS SALISBURY
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A Gentleman who for nearly 50 years contributed largely of his time,
energy and means towards the growth and development of Chariton county,
and one well and most favorably known throughout the state, now a resident
of Kenton, Ohio, deserves special mention in this Record of the county in
which he spent the best days of his long, and useful career. Judge
Salisbury was born in the state of Vermont, June 11, 1824, a son of
Belcher and Nancy (Lampson) Salisbury, the latter a descendant of Miles
Standish. On both sides, the ancestors of our subject were active
participants in the Revolutionary War. William Salisbury, the grandfather,
was born in New Jersey and died near Boston while the father of our
subject was quite young. In life, Belcher Salisbury was a very prominent
personage and held a number of political and official positions; was a
Whig and a warm friend and admirer of Webster and Clay. His death occurred
in 1863, at the age of seventy-two years. The boyhood days of Judge Lucius
Salisbury were spent in his native town, working, upon his father's farm
in summer and attending the public schools in winter. In 1843 he accepted
a position in a boot and shoe establishment of his brothers, at St. Louis,
where he remained until 1845, when he was sent to Keytesville to open up a
branch establishment, of which he afterwards became proprietor, remaining
until 1858, when he purchased and moved to a fine farm in the eastern part
of the county and upon which Chariton's metropolis now stands as a
monument to his unceasing industry, energy and intelligence. In 1850 our
subject was elected Presiding Judge of the Chariton county court. In 1862
he was unanimously elected to the Legislature and was four times re-
elected. In 1868 he was candidate for Speaker, and though he received the
full democratic vote, was defeated, the republicans being in the majority.
His career in the House was a long and honorable one. On April 13 1847, at
Braintree, Vermont, Judge Salisbury was married to Miss Harriet Newell
Hutchinson, the daughter of Nathaniel Hutchinson, an extensive farmer and
business man of that place. This union resulted in the birth of five
children, only three of whom reached majority, two now living, Arthur, now
a resident of Kenton, Ohio, and who enjoys the distinction of being the
first male white child born in Salisbury, and Hattie H., now Mrs. E. L.
Hogan, of Moberly,, Mo. In December of 1892 our subject traded his
property in Cockrell township, a valuable farm of some 1200 acres for a
finely improved farm near Kenton, Ohio, where he and his faithful
companion, who his assisted and encouraged him in the days less
propitious, are spending the declining years of their long and useful
career, surrounded with all the comforts and conveniences of life. Should
no providential hindrance prevent, Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury will celebrate
their golden wedding on the 13th of April next year.