WI BIO - Clark Co - SALTER, Richard B.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, Vol 1, p 250

R. B. [Richard B.] SALTER, attorney, Colby [listed in the 1895 Atlas of 
Wisconsin as being in Hull Township, Marathon County, Wisconsin, but actually 
on the boundary, extending into Colby Township, Clark County, Wisconsin], was 
born on 11 April 1854 in Washington County, Wisconsin, where he grew up and 
attended school. He soon began teaching, and taught in all about thirty-one 
months, having received his education in the West Bend High School and Mann's 
Commercial College of Fond du Lac [Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin], in 1875. 
He then spent the next season with Frisbie, Weil & Barney, completing his 
course at the University of [Wisconsin in] Madison. This was in 1877. He 
located at Colby [Clark County] in 1878, and now has a steadily increasing 
[law] practice.

In 1880 R. B. SALTER married Miss Sarah ENGLEHARD. [Mr. SALTER was a member 
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and served as its secretary in 1898. 
Richard B. SALTER died in May 1914 at Colby, Wisconsin.]

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