WI BIO - Lafayette Co - SALISBURY, M. C.

History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 
769

M. C. SALISBURY, farmer, Section 12 [Gratiot Township, Lafayette County, 
Wisconsin], P. O. Warren [Jo Daviess County], Illinois, was born in 1805 in 
New York. He came to Wisconsin in 1854, bought 160 acres of land, and made 
the improvements; he now owns 446 acres. He has been engaged in thrashing 
for two years. In politics Mr. SALISBURY is a Republican, and in religion, 
United Brethren.

In New York State M. C. SALISBURY married [Miss?] Mirah DINGSLY, who was born 
in 1816 in New York. They [M. C. and Mirah SALISBURY] have had six 
children: (1) Norman, deceased; (2) Prudence, now Mrs. Henry COLLINS; (3) 
Emily, now Mrs. MARCH, in Warren [Jo Daviess County], Illinois; (4) John, 
near home, who was in the 33rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in the War of the 
Rebellion; (5) James Wallace, at home; and (6) Jane, in Floyd County, Iowa.

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