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Rh and during the Revolution was a firm Whig. An- other son, Leverett, b. in Haverhill, Mass.. 25 Dec., 1754; d. in New York city, till l>rr.. 1783, ac- companied the British army from Boston to Hali- fax, was given a commission, and served as a cap- lain under Lord Cornwallis. The second Nathan- iel's son, Leverett, lawyer, b. in Haverhill, Mass., 13 June. 1783; d. i: Salem, .Mass., s May, 1845, was graduated at Harvard in 1803, studied law, and entered into practice at Salem in 1805. He was speaker of the state house of representatives, president of the state senate, the first mayor of Salem in 1836-'8, a presidential elector on the Webster ticket in 1837, and was elected to con- gress to fill a vacancy, serving from 5 Dec., 1838, till 3 March, 1S43. Harvard gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1838. He was an active member of the Massachusetts historical society, the American arademy of arts and sciences, and other learned bodies. When he died, he left a large part of his library to Phillips Exeter academy, where he had received his early education, and a bequest of muiicy to purchase books for the library at Har- vard. He was the author of an " Historical Sketch of Haverhill," printed in the "Collections" of the Mas-achusctts historical society. A descendant of Gordon. William Wanton, b. in New London, Conn., 19 Jan., 1793; d. in Chicago, 111., 18 March, 18ii3, was on his mother's side a great-grandson of Joseph Wanton. He was an early settler in Chi- cago, and during the last twenty years of his lite held the post of assignee in bankruptcy. The sec- ond Leverett's grandson, Leverett, lawyer, b. in Salem, Mass., 16 March, 1825; d. 15 April, 1895, was graduated at Harvard and at the law-school, and practised in Boston till 1864. In December, 1885, he was appointed collector of customs for the port of Boston and Charlestown. He was an active member of the Massachusetts historical so- ciety and of other learned bodies, and was compil- ing a genealogical history of his family.

SALTUS, Edgar, author, b. in New York city, 8 June, 1858. He was educated at St. Paul's school. Concord, N. H., studied later at the Sor- bonne, Paris, and in Heidelberg and Munich, Ger- many, and after his return at Columbia college law- school, where he was graduated in 1880. His ear- liest literary efforts were in poetry. His first book was " Balzac," a biography (Boston, 1884). He next devoted himself to the presentation of the pessi- mistic philosophy, a history of which he published under the title of " The Philosophy of Disenchant- ment " (1885), which was followed by an analytical exposition entitled "The Anatomy of Negation" (London. 188C; New York, 1887). He is the author
 * l< of "Mr. Incoul's Misadventure" (1887); "The

Truth about Tristrem Varick " (1888); "Eden" (isssi; "Mary Magdalene" (New York, 1891); "Imperial Purple" (Chicago, 1893); and " When Dreams Come True" (New York, 1895).

SALVATIERRA, Juan Maria de (sal-vah-te- er'-rah), Italian missionary, b. in Milan, 15 Nov., 1648; d. in Guadalajara, Mexico, 18 July, 1717. He studied in the Jesuit college of Parma, entered that order in Genoa, and went to Mexico, where he studied theology, and was for several years profes- sor of rhetoric in the College of Puebla. Later he obtained permission to convert the Tarahumaro Indians of the northwest, among whom he lived for ten years, founding several missions. He was subsequently appointed visitor of the missions in Sinaloa and Sonora, and there formed a project for the spiritual conquest of California, as all the mili- tary expeditions to that country had been without result. After obtaining permission from his su- periors, he sailed on 10 Oct., 1697, for Lower Cali- fornia, where, on 19 Oct., he laid the foundation of the mission of Loreto. He soon learned the lan- fuage of the natives, whom he propitiated by his indness, and in seven years established six other missions along the coast. In 1704 he was appointed provincial of his order, and resided in Mexico, but when his term was concluded in 1707 he returned to his missions in California. In 1717 he was called to the capital by the viceroy, the Marquis de Valero, to give material for the "History of Cali- fornia." which King Philip V. had ordered to be written. Although suffering from illness, Salva- tierra obeyed, and, crossing the Gulf of California, continued his voyage along the coast, carried on the shoulders of the Indians, till he died in Guada- lajara. He wrote " Cartas sobre la Conquista espi- ritual de Californias" (Mexico, 1698), and "Nncvas eartas sobre Californias" (1699), which have been used by Father Miguel Venegas in his " Historia de Californias." Salvatierra is still known as the apostle of California.

SALVERT, Perier du, colonial governor, b. in Prance about 1690. He was an officer in the French navy, and a knight of St. Louis. On the recall of the Sienr de Bienville in 1724, he was scut out as governor of Louisiana. His administration was lax and inefficient, and the Natchez Indians, exasperated by the deeds of evil-disposed persons, rose against the French, and on 29 Nov., 1729, slaughtered all the male inhabitants of the post in their country. Their example was followed by the Yazoos. Perier formed an alliance with the Choc- taws, and, after the latter had met the enemy in the field several times, marched into the Natchez country, and laid siege to the fortified village of the Indians until they withdrew across the Missis- sippi. In order to restore the prestige of French arms, the governor sent an expedition of 1.000 men against the Natchez in the following winter. which succeeded in capturing their fort and taking several hundred prisoners, who were sent to Santo Domingo and sold as slaves. In 1733 Bienville was reinstated, and Perier returned to France, where he was made lieutenant-general. In 1755 he was sent in command of a fleet for the protec- tion of Santo Domingo, and during the war of 1756-'63 he commanded a squadron.

SALVIN1, Tominaso, Italian tragedian, b. in Milan, Italy, 1 Jan., 1830. His father and mother were actors of ability. He performed children's parts at the age of thirteen, later joined the troupe of Adelaide Kistori. and shared her triumphs. After fighting in the Italian war for independence in 1849, he returned to the stage, and, by his im- personation of the title-roles of Giuseppe Nicolini's " Edipo " and Vittorio Alfieri's " Said," achieved an European reputation. He was also successful as Orosmane in Voltaire's " Zaire," first essayed Othello in 1857. created the part of Conrad in " La morte civile," and added to his repertoire Romeo, Hamlet, Ingomar, Paolo in Silvio Pellico's " Fran- cesca di Kimini," which he played at the Dante, celebration in 1865, and the Gladiator in Alexandre Soumet's tragedy of that name, Sullivan in " David Garrick," Torquato Tasso, Samson, Essex in " Eliza- beth," Maxime Odiot in the " Romance of a Poor Young Man," and other characters. In 1871 he visited South America, and in 1873-'4 he made a tour in the United States, giving 128 performances, besides 28 in Havana. In New York city Edwin Booth played the ghost to his Hamlet. " In 1881 he again visited the United States.

SALZMANN, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Munzbach, Austria, 17 Aug., 1819 ; d. in Milwaukee,