History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 960, Woodland Township
James Salisbury, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 32; P. O.,
Astoria; Thomas Salisbury located in Wodland tp. in his 25th
year. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary J. Kline, of
Vermillion, Ill.; of their 9 children 7 are living, - Nancy, Amanda M.,
Caroline, Martha J., Lavina, Robert and Levi. Mr. Salisbury became
the owner of farm property and is now living within a short distance of
the place where he first settled, and has lived to see the county grow
from a dense wilderness to its present state of prosperty. He
served in the late war.
