Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and history of Hancock County, Volume II, Part 138

Author: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897. cn; Selby, Paul, 1825-1913. cn; Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), 1844-1928. 4n; Scofield, Charles J. (Charles Josiah), 1853- 4n
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1174

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SALISBURY, Arthur Gay, who has always been engaged in agricultural pursuits, is one of the native sons of Hancock County, and is now engaged in conducting his family homestead in Pilot Grove Township. He was born in Car- thage Township, July 1, 1SS9, a son of James F. and Mary L. (Roush) Salisbury, natives of Pilot Grove Township; and grandson of Solomon J. and Margaret (Swisher) Salisbury, and James

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D. and Mary A. (Griest) Roush. The paternal grandparents were Mormons who came with Joseph Smith to Hancock County. The mater- nal grandparents, natives of Ohio, who came to Hancock County at an early day, first settled at Augusta, but in 1875, located in Pilot Grove Township. After their marriage, James F. Salis- bury and his wife established their home in Pilot Grove Township, where he died July 5, 1914, his widow surviving him until November S, 1916. They had two children, namely : Arthur Gay ; and Ila Eva, who makes her home with her brother.

Until April 24, 1912, Arthur Gay Salisbury made his home with his parents, but on that date he was married to ida M. Pearce, born at Bowen, Hancock County, October 20, 1886, a daughter of William F. and Anna (Pearce) Pearce, natives of Baltimore County, Md. After his marriage, Mr. Salisbury moved to a part of the homestead, where he lived until his mother's death, when he took up his residence on the homestead of 110 acres of cultivated land, and twenty acres of timberland, where he carries on general farming and stockraising. Mrs. Salis- bury is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to the support of which Mr. Salisbury contributes. He is a Democrat, and at present is clerk of the school board in his district, No. 87. His fraternal connections are with the Burnside camps of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Neighbors. A hard working, thrifty young man, he has made a suc- cess of his undertakings and stands well in pub- lic estimation.

SALISBURY, Clara (Crow), of Carthage, was born in the northwestern part of Pilot Grove Township, Hancock County, Ill., July 28, 1885, a daughter of John and Margaret (Long) · Crow, the former born November 3, 1837, and the latter, born in Tennessee, December 9, 1847. They were married March 18, 1878. His death occurred on his farm in Pilot Grove Township, October 2, 1905, and his wife died May 12, 1916. John Crow was a consistent member of the Methodist Church and was noted for his hospitality and his unswerving hatred of shams and hypocrisy.

The Crows were early settlers of St. Charles County, Mo., going there from Kentucky with Daniel Boone about 1796, being among the first American colonial settlers in Missouri. The male members of the family took part in the War of 1812, and in company with the Boones, Zumwalts and Callaways, fought during the Black Hawk War. John Crow was born in St. Charles County, and his father, Jonathan Walker Crow, born in 1808, was also a native of the county, as was his mother, Mary (Zum- walt) Crow, whose birth occurred in 1815. The maternal grandfather, George C. Zumwalt, was born in 1782, and the maiden name of his wife was Steele. His father was Adam, or Adams, Zumwalt, a soldier from Virginia in the Ameri- can Revolution, who drew a pension as such after he came to St. Charles County, Mo., where he arrived in 1797, bringing his family, house-

hold goods, horses, cattle and sheep on a flat boat, by way of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He settled near the present town of Flint Mill, where he erected two stillhouses and made whisky to sell to the Indians who camped near his place. The great Indian chief, Black Hawk, was a frequent visitor at the Zumwalt home, and while sometimes getting drunk, it is said, always behaved like a gentleman. According to the work of W. B. Stevens, entitled "Mis- souri, The Center State," Black Hawk was so charmed with the four lovely daughters of Adam Zumwalt that he offered him twelve horses for one of them. Black Hawk used to attend the pioneer social gatherings and danced the "French Four" with the Zumwalt girls. When the British made him a general at De- troit, in 1812, lie asked permission to march on St. Charles County, Mo., and capture the Zumwalts, but the British command sent him elsewhere. Mr. Zumwalt's old house near O'Fal- lon's Station, is called "Zumwalt's Fort," and is now used as a chapter house for the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. Jonathan Zumwalt, son of Adam Zumwalt, was an ac- curate marksman by the time he was six years old, at that age going into the woods and shoot- ing a large buck, which struggled so that the child became scared and throwing away his rifle, ran home. An incident of pioneer days of that section was the murder by the Indians, of a family of twelve persons near Mr. Zum- walt's home. When an Indian chief died at the fort, he was buried by his followers with a loaf of bread in one hand, a butcher knife in the other, and his dog, which was killed for the purpose, was buried at his feet so that while on his long journey to the "Happy Hunt- ing Ground" he might have food and a dog to hunt for him. It is recorded that the first Methodist sacrament in Missouri was adminis- tered at Adam Zumwalt's house. in 1807, by Rev. Jesse Walker. The wine used was made by Mrs. Zumwalt and Mrs. David Bailey, wife of Colonel Bailey, from pokeberries, and corn bread was used as there was no wheaten loaf.

Adam Zumwalt's father, Jacob Zumwalt, was owner of the land in Pennsylvania. on which the town of Little York was afterward built. He moved to Georgetown. Va., and his sons took part in the Revolutionary War.

From the above record it can be seen that Mrs. Clara (Crow) Salisbury is entitled to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a member of the Missouri State Historical Society. Both she and her husband. Albert Salisbury. dispense delightful hospitality to their relatives and other friends at their farm three miles south of Burnside. Mrs. Salisbury has two brothers, namely : John Wesley Crow, who lives at Carthage; and Rob- ert Harvey Crow, who lives at Lone Tree. Iowa. The son of Robert Harvey Crow, Albert Wayne Crow, makes his home with Mrs. Salis- bury.

SALISBURY, Don Carlos, for many years one of the most higlily esteemed men of Hancock

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County, was prominent in its history, as a Free Mason, member of the G. A. R., township officer in Carthage, Fountain Green and Pilot Grove townships and was high in the councils of the Republican Party. He contributed lib- erally to building the Presbyterian Church at Fountain Green. He was born at Plymouth, Ill., October 25, 1841, and died April 6. 1919. He was a son of Wilkins Jenkins Salisbury, son of Gideon Salisbury who served in Col. Morris Graham's Regiment of New York Militia in the Revolutionary War. The Salisburys have been noted as soldiers and statesmen in Eng- land and the United States, and Mr. Salisbury's ancestor, Sir Henry Salisbury, received a coat of arms from Richard Coeur de Leon, King of England, in 1192, for "valour" in the Third Crusade, consisting of a siver lion, ducally crowned wtih gold, between three gold crescents on a red shield.

Don Carlos Salisbury's parents were married at Kirtland, Ohio, June 8, 1831. His mother, Catherine (Smith) Salisbury, was a sister of Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet, and bore witness to the day of her death in Hancock County, in 1900, that her brother was against polygamy, and that Brigham Young, the usurper, was its author. Polygamy was never practiced except by Brigham's followers in Utah. Cath- erine Smith Salisbury was one of the first members of the Latter Day Saints Church and her husband was a member of the First "Seventy" of that church. She was of Puritan descent, the Smiths being prominent founders of Massachusetts. Her great grandfather, Samuel Smith, gentleman, was a member of the Gen- eral Court of Massachusetts, was captain of Colonial militia, and was chairman of the local "tea" committee before the Revolution, and was representative from Topsfield, Mass., in the First, and Second Colonial Congresses of Massachusetts. Her (and Joseph Smith's) grandfather was Captain Asahel Smith, who marched his company at the Lexington Alarm, in 1775. Asahel Smith's mother, Priscilla Gould, was the granddaughter of Captain John Gould of Topsfield, Mass., who served in the Pequot War, and King Philip's War, was an ensign in 1679, lieutenant in 1674, and captain in 1693; and served in Lieut. Wiliam Hasey's Three County Troop in King Philip's War. Catherine Smith's maternal grandfather, Solomon Mack, of Connecticut, and New Hampshire was of Scotch Covenanter descent, served in the French and Indian War under Israel Putnam, and was afterwards a soldier and privateer in the Rev- olution. His ancestors the Gates, Olmsteads, Loomis, Colbys, etc. were prominent as officers in colonial times. The ancestors of Joseph Smith were holders of titles of nobility and coats of arms in England.

Catherine Smith Salisbury and her family came with her brother and the church to Jack- son County, Mo., from whence they were driven on account of their Abolition sentiments, like John Brown, in the late thirties. They returned to Nauvoo, Ill., where they had a city twice as large as Chicago was in 1844, with a university,

and a fine school system. Nauvoo was the only prohibition city in the world then. Aboli- tion principles were unpopular in Hancock County in the forties and they were mobbed and scattered; but Joseph Smith's sisters and family stayed in Hancock County, where Don Carlos Salisbury was born at Plymouth, Octo- ber 25, 1841.

Mr. Salisbury was married January 27, 1870, to Sibian Weinman born in Fountain Green Township, February 2, 1842, a daughter of Matthias and Barbara (Evitts) Weinman of Franklin County, Pa., who came to Fountain Green in 1836. Mrs. Sibian Salisbury, is a great granddaughter of Joseph Evitts, who served in the Revolutionary War in Capt, Robert Mc- Curdy's Company of Lancaster County (Pa.) Militia. His oldest son, Herbert Spencer Salis- bury, of Independence, Mo., is general historian of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints Church, and professor of modern languages in the In- dependence Institute. He is a graduate of Car- thage College, and a post-graduate of the Uni- versity of Illinois, has been president of Grace- land College, of Lamoni, Iowa, and has the degree of both Bachelor and Master of Science. He is a member of the Illinois Society, Sons of the American Revolution, The Topsfield (Mass.) Historical Society, etc., and is past president of the Hancock County Historical Society. He was county surveyor of Hancock County 1904-1908. His wife, Leona G. Scott Salisbury, is a past officer of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Carthage. She is descended from David McKinly, ancestor of President McKinly. They have children: Win- field Weinman Scott, Albert and Beatrix Enid. His second child, Mary (Mrs. J. E. Dean) of Carthage, is a Daughter of the American Rev- olution, and has three lovely daughters : Roma, and Ruby, students of Carthage College, and Dorothy, in the high school. Mr. Dean is a man of affairs, a prominent Democrat, and a descendant of the Lee family of Virginia.

The third and fourth children of Don C. and Mrs. Salisbury, Joseph A., and Earnest, died of diphtheria in infancy. The fifth is Emma Hale Salisbury-Peterson, M.D., Daughter of the Amer- ican Revolution, club woman, and successful physician and surgeon of Chicago. Her hus- band is also a practicing physician and surgeon. The sixth is Albert Salisbury, successful farmer and stockraiser of Carthage Township, Han- cock County. His wife, Clara Crow Salisbury, is a descendant of the noted Zumwalt family of Pennsylvania and Virginia, who were soldiers in the Revolution, and first settlers, along with Daniel Boone, of Missouri, where they built and defended Zumwalt's Fort in St. Charles County, Mo., in the Black Hawk War and the War of 1812. The seventh, Florence, deceased, was the wife of Dr. R. R. Loomis of Burnside, Ill. The eigth is Grace, the wife of W. F. Monfort, editor, Honolulu, Hawaii. They have two small chil- dren, Mary Barbara, and an infant son. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. All of Mr. Salisbury's children attended Carthage College to some extent and

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were schoolteachers Emma is a medical college graduate, and Grace was a student in Journal- ism in Northwestern University, was society editor of the Ottumwa Courier, and held the same position on papers in Springfield, and Peoria.

Don C. Salisbury was very modest, and never would . recount the exploits he performed in the Civil War. After the battle f Pittsburg Land- ing, he saved Lieut. W. W. Porter of the Sev- enth Illinois Cavalry, at the imminent risk of his own life, from drowning. Liut. Porter and his brother, of Bridgeport, Conn. wrote him letters of thanks in the 90's. He repaid the pro-slavery fiends of Missouri, who were so cruel to his people in the 30's by leading the charge of the Sixteenth Illinois Infantry at the batttle of Utica, Mo., on the Hannibal and St. Joe Ry., near Grand River, Mo., which routed the Confederates and Salisbury captured their flag, which is credited to him now in the Flag Museum at Springfield, Ill. He also rescued several women and children from drowning, but he would never talk of those things. He was a member of Captain Smith's Cadet Company, in McDonough County, Ill., and became a mem- ber of Company C, Sixteenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, May 24, 1861, the first re- giment organized at Quincy, Ill., and was pro- moted to the rank of a non-commissioned officer for gallantry at Utica, Mo. He was in the battle of Island No. 10,, where he helped to capture 6,000 of the enemy, He was also in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Resaca, Rome and Farmington, and was honorably discharged at Rome, Ga., Gen, Sherman, commanding, after three years and one month of service, in which he suffered hardships and brought on sickness from which he never recovered. He was a U. S. pensioner.

After the war he went West as far as Nevada and after their marriage, Don C. Salis- bury and his wife moved to the farm owned by her parents in Fountain Green Township and there spent thre years, then removed to Burn- side, next to his excellent farm in Carthage Township, and finally to Ferris.

SALISBURY, Herbert Spencer, born in Fountain Green Township, Hancock County, Ill., Oct. 20, 1870. University Professor. Graduated from Carthage College Academy, 1896, Carthage Col- lege, B. S. 1899. Entered Graduate School, U. of Illinois, 1900. Master of Sciences in 1918. County Surveyor of Hancock County, 1904-1908. President Graceland College, Lamoni, Iowa, 1902. President of Hancock County Historical Society, 1917-1918. Historian of Re-organized L. D. S. Church, 1919, Independence, Mo. In Carthage College, was Pres. Cicero Lit. Soc .; Vice Pres. C. C. Alumni Association. At Uni- versity of Illinois was member Y. M. C. A. and Pres. Adelphic Lit. Soc.

Has written and published much Hancock County history ; and is member of Topsfield Historical Society and many others. Is member Illinois Society Sons of the American Revolution, by descent from Capt. Samuel Smith, and Capt.

Asahel Smith, of . Topsfield, Mass., Solomon Mack, of N. H., Gideon Salisbury, N. Y., and Joseph Evitts, Penna. Recently elected to mem- bership in the Society of Colonial Wars; also the Missouri Valley Historical Society. Is son of Don Carlos Salisbury and Sibian (Weinman) Salisbury of Hancock County. Is Professor of Geology in the University of Texas, at College Station, Texas. Married Leona G. Scott, Gradu- ate of Graceland College, in 1902. She was Treas. Domestic Sci. Club, Carthage, 1917; Sec. Shadrach Bond (Carthage) Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1916-1917 ; member C. W. B. M. of Carthage; a descendant of the Scott family ; grandniece of Walter Scott; a co- founder of the Church of the Disciples; a de- scendant of David McKinley, a Revolutionary soldier, who was an ancestor of President McKinley. They have three children, Winfield Weiman, Scott Albert and Beatrix Enid.

SALM, John Frederick, Jr., one of the repre- sentative financiers of Hancock County, and county treasurer, is a man of substance in his neighborhood, and one of the most influential citizens of Carthage. He was born in Appa- noose Township, June 21, 1884, a son of John Frederick Sahn, Sr., and his wife, Anna (Gnann) Salın, both of whom were also born in Appanoose Township. The Salm family orig- inated in Switzerland and the Gnann family in Germany. None of the Salm family held pub- lic office, except some small township ones, prior to the election of John Frederick Salm, Jr., to the office of county treasurer. John Fred- erick Salm, Sr., was for many years a success- ful farmer of Hancock County, but he is now living in retirement.

Growing up on his father's farm, John Fred- erick Salm, Jr., remained at home until he reached his majority, in the meanwhile attend- ing the local schools. Ever since he left the farm Mr. Salm has been in the banking busi- ness, and at present he is vice president of the First Trust & Savings Bank of Nauvoo; a director of the State Bank of Adrian, and is also carrying on a farming business in the northeast quarter section 2, Wythe Township.

Mr. Salm is a Democrat because he believes in the Democrtaic principles, and past accom- plishments of his party for the good of the country, and has always taken an active part in local matters. He was elected treasurer of Hancock County, November 5, 1918, on the Democratic ticket. lle has never failed to take an active interest in every movement for the good of his home and community, and has served on the school board for some years. At present lie is secretary of the County Treas- urers Association of Illinois; chairman of Group 8 Illinois Bankers Association ; director of the Carthage Commercial Club; director of the Lake View Motor Club ; and treasurer Han- cock County Fair. Le is a member of the Mod- ern Woodmen of America, the Odd Fellows and the Masons, belonging to the Consistory and Shrine of the latter fraternity. The Evangel-

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ical Lutheran Church holds his membership. His high standing and ability as a financier has led many to seek his services in positions of trust and responsibility, and he is, and has long been, guardian, conservator, executor and administrator of numerous estates.

On April 18, 1906, Mr. Salm was married at Dallas City, Ill., to Myrtle Nola Shaw, a daughter of Lee W. and Euphemia (Babcock) Shaw. Mr. Shaw is a veteran of the Civil War, in which he enlisetd and served for three years. Mr. and Mrs. Salm have no children of their own, but they have taken into their home and hearts two boys, namely : John Dean Salm, who was born April 14, 1917, who has been with them since he was eleven days old, and whom they adopted, April 16, 1920; and William Brooks Salm, who was born July 1, 1920, whom they have had since he was three days old, and whom they will soon adopt. It would be diffi- cult to find a man who stands any higher in the confidence and respect of his county than Mr. Salm. Both he and his wife are very benevo- lent, and their names are always to be found among those who are giving a practical sup- port to philanthropic enterprises. As a banker, Mr. Salm has long been recognized as one of the most astute and experienced in the state, while as a public treasurer he is but fulfilling the ex- pectations of his associates, and giving the county a wise and economical administration.

SAMPLE, John, one of the prosperous residents of Carthage is now living retired, but in form- er years was actively associated with the building operations of Hancock County. He was born in Lancaster County, Pa., August 28, 1828, a son of Robert and Jane (Hawthorn) Sample, he also born in Lancaster County, in 1803, and she born in County Down, Ire- land, in 1806. The paternal grandparents, John and Anna (Carnike) Sample, were born in County Down, Ireland, and the maternal grandparents, George and Mary (Black) Haw- thorn, were also born in County Down, Ire- land. All settled in Lancaster County, Pa. The parents of John Sample were farming people, and in 1849 they moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., later taking a boat on the Ohio River to the Mississippi River, up which they came to Illinois, landing at Canton, where they spent a year. They then came to Hancock County, bought land in Fountain Green Township, which is now included in Hancock Township, and there spent the rest of their lives. They had twelve children and John Sample is the only survivor.

John Sample first worked at cabinetmaking for a year at Peoria, then came to Carthage, and after making furniture for a time, began branching out, and' finally became a builder, his contracts covering a territory extending from the Mississippi River to McDonough County. Since 1912, however, he has lived retired. In October, 1854, Mr. Sample was married to Clarissa M. Collins, born at Au- burn, N. Y., and they have had the following

children : Sarah Emma, who is the widow of a Mr. Darrough of Red Bluff, Calif. ; Alice Ione, who is Mrs. Charles R. Leonard, of Butte, Mont .; Lore, who is deceased ; George, who lives at Butte, Mont .; and Bert, who lives at Butte, Mont. Mrs. Sample died in No- vember, 1896, since which time liis son George and his family have lived with Mr. Sample The family are all members of the Presbyte- rian Church. Formerly a Republican, Judge Sample later became a Democrat, but is very liberal in his views. He was a member of the Carthage village board, and in 1911 was elected police magistrate and has served con- tinuously, being re-elected in 1919 for his third term. He is held in the highest respect by all who know him, and deserves the prosper- ity which he now enjoys.

SANDERSON, William H., now retired, was formerly one of the most active agriculturists of St. Albans Township, where he still resides. He was born in Clarion County, Pa., January 7, 1851, a son of David and Catherine (Quig- ley) Sanderson, natives of Jersey Shore and Lock Haven, Pa. They were married in their native state, and he was engaged in practice as a physician in Clarion County until his death in 1855. In 1856 his widow with their three children went to the vicinity of Fort Scott, Kans., and in 1861, they came to Hancock County, after pre-empting land in Kansas. She was married (second) to John Crays of St. Al- bans Township, who had eighty acres of land. She had three children by her first marriage, namely : James P. and David, who are de- ceased, and William H. There were no chil- dren by her second marriage. She died on March 10, 1897, her husband dying in 1864.

William H. Sanderson attended the common schools, and lived with his mother until he was married in October, 1875, to Amelia Wisch, born in St. Albans Township, a daughter of Frederick and Catherine (Lanver) Wisch, na- tives of Germany. After his marriage Mr. San- derson moved to 100 acres of his present farm, to which he added until he now owns 505 acres, about one-half of which is under cultivation, and the balance in pasture and woodland, it being known as Sanderson Ranch. Here he car- ried on farming and the raising of Hereford cattle until 1910, when he became afflicted with rheumatism, and on June 25, 1915, he was kicked by a horse and so injured that since then his nerves have been in a serious condition and he hires his farm work done outside of the as- sistance rendered him by his sons.

Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson became the parents of the following children : Lulu K., who is Mrs. William Huddleson of Fall View, Wash .; Helen A., who is Mrs. Clark L. Murbach of Almira, Wash. ; David D., who is an ear, eye and throat specialist of Lincoln, Neb .; Fannie A., who mar- ried Dr. A. J. Boren, also an ear, eye and throat specialist of Hastings, Nebr .; Harvey L., who is cashier of the State Bank of Parks, Nebr .; Mercy K., who is Mrs. Thomas Z. Lowry of

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Houston Township, Adams County, Ill .; and William H., who is now at home, having been an electrician in the U. S. Navy ; and Robert Burns, who is also at home. Mr. Sanderson is a Methodist and has held all the offices of the church and Sunday school. A Democrat, he was a justice of the peace for two terms, super- visor for eight years, and has been a school director continuously for thirty-six years. Be- longing to Loraine Lodge No. 641, I. O. O. F., he has passed all the chairs, and represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge. He assisted in organizing the State Bank of Loraine, of which he was a director for four years, and he organ- ized the Farmers State Bank at the same place, and built the building in which it is located, for his two sons.

SARGENT, William Henry, a very prosperous general farmer of Rock Creek Township, is one of the widely known and highly respected men of Hancock County. He was born at Rushville, Ill., June 28, 1859, a son of John and Sarah (Potter) Sargent, natives of Eng- land. About 1856 John Sargent came to Rush- ville, Ill., and a year later his wife and eight children joined him, and they lived in that town for a few years. He died in 1905, aged eighty-five years, and she died in 190S, aged eighty-five years.

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Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and history of Hancock County, Volume II, Part 138

Author: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897. cn; Selby, Paul, 1825-1913. cn; Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), 1844-1928. 4n; Scofield, Charles J. (Charles Josiah), 1853- 4n Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1174

Author: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897. cn; Selby, Paul, 1825-1913. cn; Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), 1844-1928. 4n; Scofield, Charles J. (Charles Josiah), 1853- 4n
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1174