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Salisbury was born at Spring Prairie, Wisconsin, United States, on August 17, 1858. He was the son of Daniel and Lucinda (Bryant) Salisbury.
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Salisbury was born at Spring Prairie, Wisconsin, United States, on August 17, 1858. He was the son of Daniel and Lucinda (Bryant) Salisbury.
He attended the public schools, graduating from the state normal school at Whitewater in 1877, and after a year of teaching entered Beloit College, where Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin was professor of geology.
During his year at European universities in 1887-88 he studied particularly the glacial deposits of the North German lowlands.
Soon after his graduation in 1881 he became Chamberlin's assistant in his work for the United States Geological Survey, thus beginning a quasi-official connection which lasted until 1910.
In 1882, when Chamberlin resigned from Beloit, Salisbury replaced him, attaining the rank of professor in 1884. Here - except for the year 1887-88 which he spent in study abroad, especially at Heidelberg - he continued until 1891, when he became professor of geology at the University of Wisconsin. The following year he accompanied Chamberlin to the new University of Chicago, as professor of geographic geology, and there spent the rest of his life. He was head of the department of geography from 1892 to 1919, and from then until he died Chamberlin's successor as head of the department of geology.
In addition, he was dean of the University Colleges, 1894-96, and dean of the Ogden Graduate School of Science from 1899 until his death. He was closely associated with Chamberlin in the management of the Journal of Geology from its foundation in 1893, and for the last four years of his life was the responsible editor. As a teacher Salisbury took high rank.
He was a lucid writer, and for ease of comprehension, even by those who were not geologists, had few equals. Salisbury limited his geological researches chiefly to glacial and Pleistocene deposits, and in his field became a leading authority. He subsequently made an extended trip through South America. For the purpose of studying glacial action at close hand, he took part in the Peary Relief Expedition of 1895.
From 1891 to 1915 he was geologist in charge of the Pleistocene division of the Geological Survey of New Jersey, and in 1919 he was appointed a member of the board of commissioners in charge of the Illinois Survey. With Chamberlin he was also the author of Geology (3 vols. , 1904 - 06), in the American Science Series.
He was stricken with coronary thrombosis on May 31, 1922, and died in the following August.
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Salisbury was a man of exceptional presence, straightforward, unpretentious, possessing culture, refinement, and marked conversational ability. He was a lover of children and family life.
He required a great deal of his students and was harshly critical of failure, but eagerly spent himself to further the development of those in whom he saw promise.
Quotes from others about the person
His master, Chamberlin, said that his "greatest service to science lay in his singular success in stimulating and training young talent, not only for the teaching of science but for research. "
He never married. From his college days he was regarded almost as a son by the Chamberlins and for years looked upon their house as his real home.