Background
Salisbury was born in Vermont in 1808.
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Alonzo Salisbury
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Career
Salisbury was the first official burial at Omaha"s Prospect Hill Cemetery. In 1855, he came to the Omaha City in the Nebraska Territory as a stagecoach driver. Within a year he started a mill.
Alonzo Salisbury was a direct descendant of Jonathan Salisbury, the captain of a privateer that served in many battles during the American Revolutionary War.
In 1855 he opposed the original bill to grant suffrage to women, and in 1857 he was on the committee appointed to investigate the secession of Florence from Omaha. In 1858, Salisbury became the first burial at Moses Shinn"s cemetery, later known as Prospect Hill Cemetery.
Membership
Salisbury was a member of the Territorial Legislature, representing Douglas County.
