Jefferson was born in 1817. He was the son of Martin Saltsman and Jane Farquar. He passed away in 1902.
Jefferson Saltsman was born in Saline township, Jefferson county, Ohio, November 19, 1817. Received but a common school education, and learned the carpenter trade with Henry Yeahley for whom he worked three years. Followed his trade until 1847, when he began steamboating on the Yazoo River, having worked at carpentering two years in the South. In 1850 he bought the old home farm in Saline township and began farming. In 1854 he sold this farm, removed to Cross Creak township where he remained nine years, when he bought a farm 200 acres in Island Creek, bordering on the Ohio river, known as the old Sloan homestead, where he is now engaged in farming. He also owns and runs planing mill at Sloan's Station. Mr. Sloan married Mary Clark, March 15, 1854, by whom he had six daughters, viz:
His first wife dying, he married Nancy J. McElbase, of Beaver county, Pennsylvania.[1]
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