WILLIAM S. SALISBURY is numbered among the prominent agriculturists of Richland county, which has been his home from the time of his nativity and he is the owner of a fine landed estate in Willow township, being a member of one of the honored pioneer families of that section of the county. He is a son of John Salisbury, who was one of the early settlers of Willow township and who was born in Summit county, O., May 11, 1828, being reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and receiving a common-school education. Mar. 14, 1850, was solemnized the marriage of John Salisbury and Rosanna Willey, the latter having likewise been born in Summit county, May 10, 1828. They remained in that county until 1856, when they came to Wisconsin and located in Richland county. Mr. Salisbury purchased land in the southeast quarter of section 35, Willow township, and there erected his primitive log house in the forest, after which he set himself vigorously to the task of reclaiming a farm in the midst of the sylvan wilds. In 1864 he bought land on the southwest quarter of the same section, the same having been entered from the government by Henry Cushman. He removed to this farm, taking up his abode in the log house which had been erected by Mr. Cushman. In 1883 he erected the substantial frame residence which now adorns the homestead, and he attained to distinctive success as a farmer and stock-grower, being a man of energy, good judgment and progressive ideas. In 1865 he went forth in defense of the Union, having been a member of Company D, Eleventh Wisconsin infantry, in which he was enrolled in February of that year. He proceeded to Montgomery, Ala., and in the following June was taken ill and placed in a hospital. As soon as he had sufficiently recovered he was granted a furlough and returned home, receiving his honorable discharge, at Madison, Wis., Sept. 29, 1865, and thereafter passing some time in Ohio, recuperating his health. Mr. Salisbury now makes his home with his son, our subject, his wife having died Dec. 10, 1897. William S. Salisbury, whose name initiates this review, was born on the homestead farm, in Willow township, July 9, 1865, and he was reared to manhood in this township, where he has been continuously identified with agricultural pursuits from his youth to the present, his educational advantages having been those afforded in the public schools of his native county. He is the owner of eighty acres of well improved and most arable land and in addition to general farming and stock-growing he is also prominently identified with the cheese-manufacturing industry, in which connection Richland county has gained a high reputation. For about nine years past he was a member of a co-operative company organized for the prosecution of this line of enterprise, and in 1903 he established a cheese factory of his own, having since conducted and been sole owner of the same, and being recognized as one of the leading manufacturers of high-grade American cheese in this section of the state. He is a citizen loyal and liberal, is a reliable and enterprising business man and takes a deep interest in all that tends to conserve the advancement and material and civic prosperity of his native county. In politics he is aligned with the Republican party and he and his wife are members of the Congregational church. Nov. 17, 1897, Mr. Salisbury was united in marriage to Miss Ada L. Hatch, daughter of Lester M. Hatch, of whom individual mention is made in this publication. They have two children, Velma Ethel and Beulah Mabel.

William and Ada were married 17 Nov 1897 in Ithica, WI. The suggested changes all come from the "Salisbury Family History 1020-1950" by Velma Salisbury Button, my grandmother. She is buried in Button Cemetery, also in Richland County.
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Bruce Reichow