Salmon was born in
Mount Olive Township, New Jersey on February 2, 1846, and at an early age moved with his parents to the community of Bartley in Mount Olive. He attended the district school and taught school for two years. He completed an academic course at the
Charlotteville Seminary (in
Summit, New York) and at Schooley's Mountain Seminary (in
Schooley's Mountain, New Jersey), where he afterward became an instructor. He graduated from the
Albany Law School in 1873, was admitted to the New York bar in 1873, to the New Jersey bar in 1875, and commenced practice in
Jersey City, New Jersey. He moved to
Boonton, and practiced there and in
Morristown, New Jersey. He held several county offices in
Morris County. He was a member of the
New Jersey General Assembly in 1877 and 1878, and was prosecuting attorney of Morris County from 1893 to 1898. He was a delegate to the
1900 Democratic National Convention. Salmon was elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-sixth and
Fifty-seventh Congresses and served in office from March 4, 1899, until his death in Boonton on May 6, 1902. He was interred in Boonton's
Greenwood Cemetery. ==See also==