Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-05-27 | Page 16 | Former Salt Lake Editor Dead at 86

FORMER SALT LAKE EDITOR DEAD AT 86 Joseph Salisbury, Formerly on Tribune Staff, Passes Away at Aspen, Colo. Word has been received of the death at Aspen, Colo., of Joseph Salisbury, at the .age of S6 years. He was one ot the members of the original editorial staff of the Salt Lake Tribnne and for several years assistant editor of the paper. Mr. Salisbury was born at Frampton, county of Dorset, England. After taking tak-ing part in the Crimean war he served for ten years as a warrant officer in the British navy. Later he came to the Vnited States and settled in Brooklyn, !N. Y., where he organized a volunteer' company for the Civil war, but the conflict con-flict ended before his company reached the front. At the close of the war he started west with his family journey-in journey-in in ox teams, and came to bait Lake. Being an able writer, he was engaged for reportorial work when the Tribune was founded and was gradually promoted promot-ed until he became assistant editor. He was the first candidate of the National party for representative in congress, but was defeated. Later he founded the New Endowment, a mining journal. In 1S85 he removed to Aspen, where he had resided continuously since, with the exception of a two rears' visit in Salt Lake, from 1914 to" 1016. He is survived by his widow and seven sev-en children, two of whom, Mrs. D. F. Needham of Salt Lake and Mrs. T. W. Bobbins of Murdoch, reside in Utah.