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Seminary of Clermont, Ferraud, where he was ordained priest, Dec. 30, 1851. He was profes- sor in the preparatory Seminary of Clermont, 1851-59; and came to the United States in 1859, engaging in missionary work as parish priest at Mora, New Mexico, 1859-66, and as vicar-general of Arizona, 1866-68. He was elected bishop of "Dory la" in partibus and vicar-apostolic of Arizona, Sept. 25, 1868, and was consecrated at Clermont, Ferraud, France. June 20, 1869. His diocese included Arizona, New Mexico and part of Texas, in which he organized many new con- gregations, schools and hospitals. He was trans- ferred to Santa Fe, New Mexico, as coadjutor to Archbishop Lamy, April 23, 1884; was promoted titular archbishop of " Anazarba," Oct. 3, 1884, and succeeded to the see of Santa Fe, July 18, 1885. He resigned the archbishopric, Jan. 7, 1894; received the title " Archbishop of Tomi"^)^ partibus, Jan. 21, 1894, and retired to Bussieres, Pruns, Paraigueperse, Puy de Dome. France. He died in Tucson, Arizona. July 16, 1898.

SALTER, Moses Buckingham, A.M.E. bishop, was born in Charleston, S.C, Feb. 13, 1841; son of Moses Buckingham and Mary M. Salter. He joined the Methodist church, 1856; was a class leader. 1860; one of the founders of the A.M.E. cimrch in Charleston, S.C, 1865; ordained deacon, 1807; eliler, 1868; was presiding-elder of Aiken district, 1868-70, and a student in Wilberforce university, 1870-74. He was married, Sept. 2, 1874, to Priscilla Smith of Aiken; was pastor of Emanuel church, Charleston, 1875, and served various other pastorates until his consecration as bishop in 1892. In 1903 his residence was in Charleston, S.C.

SALTER, William Dayton, naval officer, was born in New York city, Aug. 23, 1794; son of Thomas and Charlotte (Daj'ton) Salter; grand- son of Manassah and Catharine (Wright) Salter, and of Jonathan Dayton, and a descendant of Ricliard Salter, who came from England to Mon- mouth county, N.J., 1665, and Sarah Bowne,

his wife.

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frigate Constitution, during the fight with the Guerriere, Aug. 19, 1812, and was the last survivor of the crew of the Constitution in 1868. He was promoted lieutenant, Dec. 9, 1814; commander, March 3, 1831, and captain, March 3, 1839. He

was married to Margaret Armstrong. He was placed on the reserved list, Jan. 4, 1856; com- manded the navy yard at Brooklyn, N.Y., 1856- 59, and was promoted commodore on the reserved list, April 4, 1867. He died at Elizabetli, N.J., Jan. 3, 1869.

SALTONSTALL, Dudley, naval officer, was born in New London, Conn., Sept. 8, 1738; son of Gurdon (q.v.) and Rebecca (Winthrop) Salton- stall. He received a liberal education, and be- came a sea captain in the merchant service. He was married in 1765 to Frances, daughter of Dr. Joshua Babcock of Westerly, R.I. He command- ed the Alfred, flagship of Commander-in-Cliief Esek Hopkins's squadron, of which John Paul Jones was second in command, and in February, 1776, took part in the attack on New Providence, and with Abraham Whiffle was brought before the marine committee with Admiral Hopkins, charged with breacli of orders, but the captain was acquitted, and he was appointed fourth in the list of captains in the Continental nav^-, Oct. 10, 1776, and transferred to the frigate Trumbull. He was commodore of the fleet that sailed from Boston in July, 1779, for the purpose of reducing the British post at Castine, Maine. Gen. Solomon Lovell commanding the militia, refused to co-operate with Saltonstall, and the attack was delayed till the arrival of Sir George Collier with a superior naval force. In the attack which followed, the American vessels were aban- doned or burned, and the soldiers and sailors marched through the wilderness to Falmouth and thence to Boston. A court of inquiry shielded the state militia, and laid the blame upon Salton- stall, a Continental officer, hoping to make the Continental government responsible in part for the $7,000,000 which the expedition had cost Massachusetts. He was dismissed from the ser- vice, Oct. 7, 1779, and subsequently commanded the privateer Minerva, capturing among other prizes the Hannah, a British merchant ship, with a cargo valued at £80,000. He died in the West Indies in 1796.

SALTONSTALL, Gurdon, governor of Con- necticut, was born in Haverliill, Mass., March 27, 1666; son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Ward) Saltonstall; grandson of Richard and Muriel (Gurdon) Saltonstall and of the Rev. John and Alice (Edmunds) Ward, and a descendant of Sir Richard and Grace (Kaye) Saltonstall. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1684. A.M., 1687; served as butler of the college, 1684-85; was or- dained minister of the church at New London, Conn., Nov. 25, 1691; became celebrated as a preaclier, and was invited to accompany Win- throp to England to settle political difficulties in 1693. He was chosen to succeed Gov. Fitz-John Winthrop in office at the latter's death, and