City: Lynchburg
SALMON, Ezekiel Young, physician; born Greeneville, S.C., June 26, 1830; Scotch-Irish and Welsh descent; son of William H. and Eliza B. (Hansell) SALMON; father’s occupation physician and government official; educated in the common schools of Tennessee, and graduated at Nashville, Tenn., with degree M.D., 1857-1870; spent several years in California in early life; organized the first military company in the State of Tennessee for the Confederate army, March 10, 1861, and served as captain and surgeon of Company “C,” First Tennessee Volunteer Regiment, C.S.A.; married Harriet C. TAYLOR, 1858; Mason, Worshipful Master; Democrat; former clerk and master of Chancery Court for Moore Co., Tenn., 1872-1884; member of the Church of Christ; formerly engaged in the practice of medicine, now retired.
