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53Q SAl'FORD. SALISBURY. SAFFORD, Nathaniel Foster, son of Nathaniel Foster and Hannah (Wood- bury) Safford, was born in Salem, Essex county, September 19, 1815. He fitted for college at the Latin gram- mar school in Salem; entered Dartmouth College, and graduated in 18,55. He studied law with Hon. Asahel Huntington, of Salem, and commenced practice in Dorchester and Milton Village, where he has since resided. For over thirty years his office has been in Boston, where he has continued the pursuit of his profession, now extending in all over a period of nearly fifty years. In the early years of professional life he NATHANIEL F SAFFORD acted as a magistrate, and as master in chancery, exercising also jurisdiction under the operation of insolvent laws. lie was a representative to the General Court from the town of Dorchester in 1850 and '51. In 1853 he succeeded Hon. Samuel P. Loud, as one of the board of county commissioners for the county of Norfolk, at the time when Roxbury, West Roxbury and Dorchester formed part of that county. Mr. Safford served as chair- man of the board fifteen years, while living in Dorchester, and an additional term of six years while residing in Milton. Mr. Safford has been instrumental in the entire extinguishment of corporate fran- chises in turnpikes and toll-bridges, and the establishment of free bridges and roads within those town limits ; the location and relocation of highways, the remodeling of court-houses and prisons, and fire-proof apartments for records ; also the location of railroad-crossings, and such local move- ments having for their object the welfare of that section of the county of Norfolk. February 10, 1845, at Milton, he married Josephine Eugenia, daughter of Joseph (a descendant of George Morton, who arrived at Plymouth in 1623) and Mary (Wheeler) Morton. They have one child : Nathaniel Morton Safford. SALISBURY, Stephen, son of Stephen and Rebekah Scott (Dean) Salisbury, was born in Worcester, March 31, 1835. His education was begun at the private infant school of Mrs. Levi Heywood. At the age of six years he passed the winter of i84i-'4J with his parents in Savannah, Ga. In 1842 he attended the private school of Mrs. Jonathan Wood, and fur a short time in 1844 was a pupil at Miss Bradford's private school, Boston. Passing through the grammar and high schools of Worcester, he entered Harvard College in 1852, and was graduated in the class of 1856. He then went to Europe and became a student in the Eriederich William University, Berlin. In 1857 he attended lectures for some months at L' Ecole de Droit, Paris, and during the summer and autumn, traveled extensively in Greece and Asia Minor. Fie resumed his studies in Berlin the next winter ; in the spring he re-visited Paris, whence in May he set out with his father's family upon a tour for several months in Italy, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Mr. Salisbury returned to Worcester in December, 1858, studied book-keeping for a time, and then entered the office of Dewey & Williams as a law student. A year later he entered the Harvard law school, and after two years' study received the degree of LL. B., and was admitted to the bar in Worcester, October, 1861. The next winter he spent in Yucatan, studying, during his stay of si months, many of the Maya Indian ruins and monu- ments. He again visited Yucatan in 1S85, extending his journey to other parts of