VanWert County OhArchives Biographies.....Saltzgaber, Hon. Gaylord M. 
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Author: R. Sutton

"History of Van Wert and Mercer counties, Ohio" by R. Sutton. 1882

pg 182

Hon. Gaylord M. Saltzgaber was born at Shelby, Richland County, Ohio, March 14,
1846.  At the age of eleven years he
removed with his parents to Van Wert, Ohio, where he has since resided.  At the
age of fifteen years he enlisted at
Elmore, Ohio, in the Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and served with that company
throughout the war, being honorably
discharged in August, 1865.  After leaving the army he attended school at Van
Wert, and Poughkeepsie, N.Y., until 1867,
when he began the study of law with R.B. Encell, at Van Wert, Ohio.  IN August,
1869, he was admitted to the bar, 
and formed a law partnership with Hon. I.N. Alexander.  He was elected mayor of
Van Wert, and subsequently served
as a member of the Baord of Education.  IN 1877 he was nominated by the
Democratic party as the candidate for State
Senator in the Thirty second District, composed of the conties of Allen,
Auglaize, Defiance, Mercer, Paulding, Van Wert,
and Williams.  He was elected by the usual majority, and re-elected in 1879. 
Although one of the youngest members of
the Senate, Mr. Saltzgaber took rank as an able lawyer in that body.  He was
Chairman of the Standing Committee on 
Fees and Salaries, and Municipal Corporations, and Chairman of a Special
Committee of eight leading members of the 
Senate to revise the Municipal Code, and also Chairman of a Committee, raised at
hie request, to perfect the system
of Drains and Ditches in Ohio.  IN all he took an active and leading part in
shaping the important legislation that
commanded the attention of the legislature.  On December 20, 1874, he was
married to Mill Ella Rice, of Van Wert, by
whom he has two sons, named William and Glenn.

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