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 SALISBURY

SALM SALM

the diocese of Yincennes on the death of Bishop Bazin, April 23, 1848; was precanonized, Oct. 3, 1848, aud was consecrated bishop of Yincennes, Ind., Jan. 14, 1849. by Bishop Niles of Nashville, assisted by Bisliops Spalding of Louisville, aud Hypolite Dupoutance of Madison, Ind. He erected many churches and two orphan asylums; per- suaded the Benedictines to send a colony to Indiana in 1849, and twice visited Europe in the interest of his diocese. He attended the Yatican council iu 1869 and established the Franciscan Fathers at Oldenburg, and at Indianapolis. Many female orders owe their admission into the diocese to his administration. He died at St. Mary's of the Woods, Yigo co.. Ind.. June 28, 1877. SALISBURY, Edward Elbridge, orientalist, was born in Boston, Mass., April 6, 1814; son of Josiah and Abby (Breese) Salisbury: grandson of Samuel and Elizabeth (Sewall) Salisbury and of Samuel and Elizabeth (Anderson) Breese, and a descend- ant of John Salisbury of Boston, Mass., about 1689. and his second wife, Bridget Williams; also of Sidney Breese. who was in New York as early as 1733-34, and his wife, Elizabeth Penkethman. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1832, A.M., 1835; attended Yale Divinity school. 1832-35, and studied Oriental languages under Silvestre de Sacy. Garcin de Tassy and Franz Bopp, 1836-39. He was married, first, April 27, 1836, to Abigail Salisbury, daughter of Edward and Mary (Salis- bury) Phillips of Boston, Mass.; and secondly, Nov. 23, 1872. to Evelyn, daughter of Judge Charles Jo!uison and Sarah Ann (Lord) McCurdy of Lyme, Conn. H; was professor of Arabic and Sanskrit languages and literature at Yale, 1841- 54, which chair liad been created for him, and in ]8r)4 he divided the chair with William Dwight Wliitney, retaining the professorship of Arabic language and literature. He was corresponding secretary of the American Oriental society and its president in 1863; was elected a member of the Asiatic society of Paris in 1838; correspond- ing member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres at Constantinople in 1855, and of the German Oriental society in 1859. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Yale in 1869, and by Harvard in 1886. He presented Yale with his unequalled Sanskrit library in 1870. He conducted the Journal of the American Oriental society for several years, and contributed many articles. He is the author of: Account of the Diodati Family (printed privately, 1875); Principles of Domestic Taste, a lecture delivered before the Yale School of the Fine Arts (1877); Family Meviorials (1885); and Family Histories and Genealogies (1892), the lat- ter in collaboration with his wife, Evelyn Mac- Curdy Salisbury. He died in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 5, 1901.

SALLEV, Alexander Samuel, Jr., author, was born in Orangeburg county. S.C., June 16. 1871; son of Alexander McQueen and Sallie (McMichael) Salley; grandson of Alexander Samuel and Julia Eliza (Murrowe) Salley and of Cephas Manly and Rachel Elizabeth (Jennings) McMichael, and a descendant of Capt. John Salley (1740-1794), of the Revolution. He attended Sheridan's classical school. Orangeburg. S.C., 1881-87; was graduated from the South Carolina Military academy. 1892; served on the engineer corps of the World's Columbian exposition, August-September, 1892; was private secretary to William Elliott, repre- sentative, 1896; employed on the Neics and Courier, Charleston, S.C., 1896-99; admitted to the bar in the latter year, and also elected sec- retary and treasurer and librarian of the South Carolina Historical society. His publications include: History of Orangeburg County. S.C. (1898); Bibliography of William Gillmore Simms (1897), and Henry Timrod (1899) for the South- ern History association of Washington, D.C.. and other bibliographies, reports and articles on historical subjects. He also edited The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine (Yols. 1. 2. 3 and 4. 1900-1903).

SALLMON, William Henry, educator, was born in London. Ontario. Canada, Sept. 6. 1866; son of Christopher and Mary (Mcilurdoch) Sall- mon. He was engaged in mercantile business in London, Ontario, 1884-85; was secretary of the Young Men's Christian association, Port Henry, N.Y., 1886-87; Newburgh, N.Y., 1887-89, and was graduated from Yale, A.B,, 1894, A.M.. 1897. He was traveling secretary of the Australasian Student Christian union. 1897-1900; traveled in Egypt, Palestine and Southeastern Europe. 1900; was a member of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1897-1900; pas- tor of the South church, Bridgeport, Conn., 1902, and in January, 1903, became president of Carle- ton college, Northfield, Minn. He was married, Feb. 17, 1903, to Alice Bussey. daughter of Fred- erick and Mary (Baldwin) Trubee of Bridgeport, Conn. He is the author of several studies in the life of Jesus and of other religious publications.

SALM SALM, Agnes, Princess, philanthro- pist, was born in S wanton. Yt., or Phillip.s- burg, Quebec, Dec. 25,1840; daughter of William L. and Julia (WiUard) Joy. She was married, Aug. 30, 1862, in Washington, D.C.. to Prince Felix Salm Salm, then colonel and chief of staff to Gen. Louis Blenker, and became his insepa- rable companion throughout his varied and rom- antic career. During the civil war her unfailing cheerfulness, warm sympathies and womanly ministries endeared her to the men confined in the Federal hospitals. Her husband reached the rank of l)rigadier-general by brevet, April 13,