Stephen Salisbury III (1835–1905), also referred to as Stephen Salisbury Jr., was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician. [1] The son of a wealthy landowner, Salisbury helped manage the family's extensive properties and businesses in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

By the 1890s, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia all had art museums. Worcester philanthropist Stephen Salisbury III believed his hometown deserved one too, and he joined forces with other community leaders to build an art museum for Worcester.

Dec 22, 2020 · These facts make The Children’s Friend one of the rarest and most significant Christmas documents in American history, and we owe its discovery to a six-year-old boy, Stephen Salisbury III, who saved a childhood gift of no obvious monetary or historical value and, many decades later, donated it to the Society.

The Mansion was built in 1772 by Stephen Salisbury, with an attached storehouse from which he sold imported goods. Today the mansion is a living museum and the only historic house within the city of Worcester.

Stephen Salisbury II, who donated a major portion of his land for the Institute, was named the first president of the Institute’s Board of Trustees. The Institute would later be known as Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).

Stephen Salisbury II, one of the wealthiest men in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the 1800s, had interests in banking, canals and railroads. But his collection of fragments from the...

Like his father, Stephen Salisbury III served one term in the Massachussetts Senate, was president of the Worcester National Bank, and directed the Worcester & Nashua Railroad.

Stephen Salisbury III was born in Worcester and was the only son of the wealthy businessman Stephen Salisbury II (cat. #101). The younger Stephen graduated from Harvard College in 1856 and spent several years traveling in Europe and Asia before returning to complete his law degree.

Stephen Salisbury II, one of the wealthiest men of his era in central Massachusetts, was elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society in 1840. Three years later he was elected a Councillor.

Stephen Salisbury. II, of Worcester; Banker & Massachusetts State Senator etc. 1798-1884