ANDREW J. SALTS

SALTS

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 13:42:20

ANDREW J. SALTS, a physician at Corning, was born in Indiana, in 1838. His father, Paul H. Salts, was a farmer and public-spirited man who helped build the Wabash & Erie Canal, and was among: the first settlers in Huntington county, Indiana. His mother, whose maiden name was Lucy Sanford, was born near Richmond, Virginia, a lineal descendant of Francis Lightfoot Lee, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Both parents lived to a good old age; they are now buried near Roanoke, Indiana.

The Doctor, the oldest of eight children, was reared on a farm and completed his school days at Roanoke Seminary, Indiana. After studying medicine with Drs. Richart & Chaffee, of Roanoke, three years he entered the medical department of the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor, and from that institution of learning he entered the army, joining the Twenty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was on detached duty in the medical department; saw service in South Carolina, at Branchville and the fall of Charleston, and returned home at the close of the war. Resuming the study of medicine, he took his second course of lectures at the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, in 1865-66. He “hung out his shingle” during the latter year, in Iowa. He has now been practicing his profession at Corning for eighteen years; he is progressive and yet safe in his methods; is interested in many things that are of public benefit, especially to the youth, contributing to their advancement to he best of his ability. He believes that a free press and the free schools are the bulwarks of this nation. The Doctor is an enthusiastic Freemason and a member of the order of the Eastern Star. Politically he is a zealous Democrat, being now a member of the Central Committee. As a “thanksgiving day” he usually observes January 8, which, as he says, “recalls the hailed memories of ‘The Hermitage’ and the hero of 'New
Orleans.” In 1876, at Carbon, Iowa, the Doctor married Miss Orry H. Shinn, an accomplished young lady and successful school teacher, who also devotes much attention to music and art, and is a zealous member of the Women’s Relief Corps and the order of the Eastern Star; she has held important offices in the subordinate bodies of both societies as well as in the State organizations of these two important guilds. Her ancestors were noted as pioneers and soldiers. The Shinns were among the first settlers of the two Newarks, —in New Jersey and Ohio,—and freely gave their loved ones in defense of their country in three wars. Cornelius Van Dyke, one of her forefathers, fell in the war of 1812, and Lieutenant Darwin Chase, another of her
ancestors, was killed at the battle of Bear river, in the great Rebellion.