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Subject: [IOWA] 1903 Bio of William Salter
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:50:42 EST
WILLIAM SALTER, one of the pioneer preachers of Iowa, was born in Brooklyn,
New York, November 17, 1821. He was educated in the Union Theological Seminary
of New York, the Theological Institution of Andover, Massachusetts, and the
New York University. In November, 1843, he came to Maquoketa, Iowa, one of
eleven young Congregational ministers who, early in that year formed an "Iowa
Band" to establish churches of their faith in the new Territory. They were young
men from twenty-two to thirty-four years of age who were in the senior class
at Andover. Seven of them, including Mr. Salter, were ordained in the old
academy building at Denmark in Lee County, on Sunday, November 5, 1843. From
there they went to different localities as missionary preachers. After preaching
two years at Maquoketa, Mr. Salter became the pastor of the First
Congregational Church of Burlington. In addition to his services as a minister, Dr.
Salter has given much time to study of Iowa history and for many years has been a
contributor of valuable articles to historical publications. His "Life of
James W. Grimes" is one of the best of Iowa biographies. He has also written
biographies of General Augustus C. Dodge, General J. M. Corse and Governor James
Clarke. He is the author of a church hymn book, "Memoirs of J. W. Pickett,"
"Forty Years' Ministry" and numerous historical addresses. For more than half
a century he has continued to meet the highest expectations of a cultured and
critical congregation. In all the attributes of a great and popular
minister, a genial and helpful pastor, he was uncommonly endowed. His name and fame
are intimately entwined with the building up of the State which in youth he
selected for a home.
Debbie Clough Gerischer
Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County
http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/
IAGENWEB: Special History Project:
http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm
Gerischer Family Web Site:
http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
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