Albert  SALISBURY

Albert Salisbury — Full Transcription (Walworth County, Wisconsin, pp. 779–784)

ALBERT SALISBURY.

That life is the most useful and desirable that results in the greatest good to the greatest number, and, although all do not reach the heights to which they aspire, yet in some measure each can win success and make life a blessing to his fellow men. It is not necessary for one to occupy eminent public positions to do so, for in the humbler walks of life there remains much good to be accomplished and many opportunities for the exercise of talents and influence, that in some way will touch the lives of those with whom we come in contact making them better and brighter. In the list of Walworth county's successful citizens, the late Albert Salisbury, a prominent Wisconsin educator and for many years the efficient and popular president of the State Normal School at Whitewater, long occupied a conspicuous place. In his record there is much that is commendable, and his career forcibly

Albert Salisbury.—Was born in Lima, Wis., Jan. 24, 1843, being the first white child born in the town of Lima. He was the oldest of six children born to Oliver Salisbury and Emily Cravath, who both came to Wisconsin before they were married, which event occurred April 27, 1841. His father was one of the seven Salisbury brothers who spent more or less of their lives in the neighborhood of Whitewater. He built the first frame house between Whitewater and Milton, and to this took his bride, one of the nine grown-up daughters of Deacon Prosper Cravath.

Albert grew up on the Lima farm, experiencing all the responsibilities of the oldest child in a pioneer family. About 1855, his father added the nursery business to farming, and to this the boy served an apprenticeship of twelve years. He entered the Union Army as a recruit in the 13th Wis. Infantry in December, 1863, serving in the Army of the Cumberland. After the war was ended, his Army corps, the 4th, was sent to Texas under Gen.