Tulare County Biographies

A. J. SALLADAY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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In the Buckeye State, in 1854, was born A. J. Salladay, a prominent citizen of 
Tulare county and an enthusiastic promoter of the interests of Terrabella and 
its tributary territory. When he was twelve years old he was taken to Iowa by 
his parents on their removal to that state, and there he remained eighteen 
years, until 1884, when he came to California and settled in Fresno county. 
After a residence of two years there he removed to Tulare county, within the 
borders of which he has since made his home. It was in Ohio and Iowa that he 
obtained his education. His father was a rancher and all through his boyhood and 
youth the son was his assistant. When he left Iowa in 1884 he took up the battle 
of life for himself, buying forty acres of land in Fresno county, which he 
subsequently sold. In Tulare county he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres, 
to which he added by subsequent purchases until he owned a whole section, which 
he sold a few months ago for $42,000, it being good producing wheat land. There 
is food for thought in this brief statement of the success of a self-made man. 
It was dependent not alone on industry and perseverance, but not a little on a 
prophetic foresight which took account of values past and present and future.
In 1885 Mr. Salladay married Sophia Carr, a native of Iowa, and they have had 
four children, all of whom are living. Nita married J. B. Garver and lives at 
Terrabella. Sarah became the wife of Henry Owens and lives in the same 
neighborhood. Joe is unmarried, and Carr is a boy of five years. Mrs. Salladay's 
parents, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, are living in California. Mr. 
Salladay's father, also of Ohio birth, died soon after his son came to Tulare 
county. The latter remembers the country then as only a boundless sheep range, 
and he has watched and aided in its development until it has become famous as 
the citrus belt of California. When he came here the people did not dream of 
this latter day prosperity based on irrigation, and farmers were subject to all 
the vicissitudes of the seasons. Patriotic and helpful to an unusual degree, Mr. 
Salladay is not an active politician and has never consented to accept any 
public office except as a member of the school board, the duties of which his 
interest in general education has impelled him to undertake.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, Pp 782-783