Santa Barbara County Biographies

H. W. SALZMAN

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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H. W. SALZMAN, of Lompoc, was born in Germany, in 1833. His father was a weaver by 
trade, and also owned a small farm. Mr. Salzman learned the trade of a mason and 
plasterer, at Hessen-Cassel, where he served a three-years apprenticeship. He then 
traveled three years and worked in Hanover, Hamburg and Bremen, which was 
considered necessary before one became a finished artisan. In 1856 he came to the 
United States, first working on Long Island, about Babylon, at his trade; then in the fall 
of 1858 he left for California, by the Isthmus of Panama. After arrival he went to 
Sacramento Valley, where he passed one year, and through an accidental injury he was 
admitted to the Marine Hospital at San Francisco. After recovering he worked on a milk 
ranch at the Presidio, until 1860, when he went to the mines in Tuolumne County, 
remaining ten years in that locality. In 1870 he went to Los Angeles, and resumed his 
trade, and in 1878 went to Santa Barbara, where he contracted, and did the plastering 
of the Arlington Hotel, Crane's Hall, and many of the residences. In 1876 lie came to 
Lompoc Valley, and bought 460 acres in the San Pasqual Cafion and foot-hills, mainly 
grazing land, except about live acres in fruit. He keeps about sixty head of cattle, and 
several brood mares, and has a good apiary of 100 stands of bees. 

Mr. Salzman was married at Lompoc, in 1880, to Miss Amelia Kriegel, a native of 
Germany, who came direct to California to perform the marriage vows. They have five 
children. Mr. Salzman still works at his trade about town, and also carries on the 
ranch. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.