. Historical, pictorial and biographical record, of Chariton County, Missouri. ized as a leader among them in mattersof general and pul)lic interest. fUDGE LUCIUS SALISBURY, a gentleman who for nearly 50years contributed largely of his time, energy and means towardsthe growth and development of Chariton county, and one welland most favoral^ly known throughout the state, now a resident ofKenton, Ohio, deserves especial mention in this Record of the countyin which he spent the best days of his long and useful career. Judge Salisbury was born in the state ofVermont, June 11, 1824, a son ofBelcher
. Historical, pictorial and biographical record, of Chariton County, Missouri. ized as a leader among them in mattersof general and pul)lic interest. fUDGE LUCIUS SALISBURY, a gentleman who for nearly 50years contributed largely of his time, energy and means towardsthe growth and development of Chariton county, and one welland most favoral^ly known throughout the state, now a resident ofKenton, Ohio, deserves especial mention in this Record of the countyin which he spent the best days of his long and useful career. Judge Salisbury was born in the state ofVermont, June 11, 1824, a son ofBelcher and Nancy (Lampson)Salisbury, the latter a decendantof Miles Standish. On both sides,the ancestors of our subject wereactive participants in the Revolu-tionary War. William Salisbury,the grandfather, was born in NewJersey and died near Boston whilethe father of our subject was quiteyoung. In life. Belcher Salis-bury was a very prominent per-sonage and held a number of \)o-litical and official positions; was aWhiff and a warm friend and ad-? mirer 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 hisnative town, Avorking u|)on his fathers farm in summer and attendingthe public schools in winter. In 1843 he accepted a position in a bootand shoe establishment of his l^rothers, at St. Louis, where he remain-ed until , when he was sent to Keytesville to open up a branchestablishment, of which he afterwards became proprietor, remaininguntil 1858, when he purchased and moved to a tine farm in the easternpart of the county and upon which Charitons metropolis now standsas a monument to his unceasing industry, energy and intelligence.[See page twenty-three.] In 1850 our subject was elected PresidingJudge of the Chariton county court. In 1862 he was unanimously PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 219 elected to the Legislature and was four times re-elected. In 1868 hewas candidate for Speaker, and
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