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- Newspaper Obituary - Wednesday, April 11, 1900 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Benjamin D. Salisbury - Benjamin D. Salisbury was born in Sandy Creek, New York, March 20, 1838, and died in this village, April 9, 1900, thus having lived three score and two years. Mr. Salisbury was the oldest son of Mr and Mrs. Dewey Charles Salisbury, who came to this town from Sandy Creek when Benjamin was quite young. When a young man he was associated with his father in trade in this village and later he was one of the leading boot and shoe merchants of our village and continued in business up to the time of the great fire, in 1881. October 31, 1865, he married Frances Stacy, of New Haven, New York, who survives him. Mr. Salisbury is the first to go from a family of eight children. Three sisters and four brothers survive him. The sisters are Mrs. N. A. Alsever, Syracuse; Mrs. J. A. Morris, Thousand Island Park; Mrs. Ida Craig, Chicago; the brothers are Smith E., John E. and Frank L., of Chicago; and William W., of Toledo, all are here except John and Mrs. Craig. Messrs. Dewey and John Alsever, nephews of Mr. Salisbury, are here. The funeral will take place from the residence, in Park street, at half-past one, today. Burial with Masonic rites. Mr. Salisbury was a member of Pulaski Lodge, No. 415, F. & A. M.
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1838 - 1900 (61 years)
d. 8 Jul 1893 (Age 78 years)