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was horn in Boston April G, 1914. and
was the son of Josiah and Abigail
I CBreeze) Salisbury, both owning a high
New England ancestry. The sons ear
lier education was at his home, under
the personal teaching of his father,
followed by preparation for college at
the BOSTON Latin school, He entered
Yale in the class Of 1882 and was grad
uated with high honors. Among MS
classmates were Senator Caperton OF
West Virginia, C. M. Clay, minister to
Russia; President Hitchcock, of West
ern Reserve college; Professor Samuel
M Hopkins, Of Auburn Theological
seminary. and Professor Alfred Stille of
the University of Pennsylvania. One
Of the graduating class of seventy
three, by the last triennial catalogue
1S98) of Yale, only six members re-
manned alive.
After graduation, young Salisbury
Travelled. and studied abroad for several
wears. Led by previous Hebrew study
into Oriental literature, he worked I'M
der DeSacy and Garcin dc Tassy in
Paris and with Bopp at Berlin, and af-
ter the death of De Sacy he purchased
a part of the philologist's library, and
brought it home to America In 1841
the corporation of Yale voted to estab-
lish a professorship in Arabic and San
scrit. to which Mr.. Salisbury was APP
pointed ito give such instructions from
time to time as may suit his conven-
fence without the expectation of pecun
larry compensation" Professor Sails
bury then went to Europe read San
scrit with Lassen, and returned to take
his chair in 1913. He held his professor
ship a number of years, during which
according to somewhat cloudy academic
tradition at Yale, he had only two
scholars, but those two, W. d. Whitney
and James Hadley. He recognized so
clearly the pathological gifts and prom
Use Of Whitney that he surrendered to
him the professorship after fully endow-
ing it with $4,000, which now appears
as the "Sanscrit fund" in the universi-
ty treasurer's report.
Early in the fifties Professor Sails
bury became corresponding secretary
of the Oriental society, and subsequent
ly its president and chief patron. In
deed, for many years he was the socie-
ty, paying the bills for its journal, con-
tributing many papers, advancing funds
and stimulating the organization by his
energy and purse. Yale, and in partic-
ular the Yale library, owe much to his
generosity and pathological enthusiasm
In 1870 he gave her his splendid collec-
tlon of Oriental works and Sc, 900 for ad-
ditions, and for many years made the
library periodical contributions. He be-
came member of many learned and
antiquarian societies in this country
and in Europe, and received from Yale |
the honorary degree of LII. D. in 1869, |
and from Harvard In 1885,
In his middle and more active life |
Professor Salisbury published many pa |
pers and monographs on subjects con- |
nected with philology. In his later
years he became acutely Interested in
and in 1886 printed his Fam
lly Memorials" followed in 1892 by |
Family Histories and Genealogies" in
which he elaborated with his wife in
producing several large volumes re-
markable for the fullness, accuracy, ty-
biographical excellence, and expansive
ness OF charts Such was his love of |
precision in works Of the kind that he
e said to have ordered the reprint of
whole volume because of a single error
n the types During his last years
Professor Salisbury had led a quiet and
'etired life in New Haven, but retain
ng his keen interest in Yales philolo-
~ and art. For long period and up
% its extinction he served as one of the
our elective members of the Art school
II the university. and wrote in the mas
i've Yale Book" of 1879 the historical
ketch on Trumbull gallery.
Professor Salisbury married in 1886
abigail Philips, by whom he had one
laughter, who died in 1876. He married
November 1871, as his second wife.
EVELYN McCurdy, daughter of the late
Judge McCurdy Of the Connecticut su-
RENE court.