HARRY SALTER JR.

1916-1997

My grandpa, Harry Salter Jr., was born in 1916 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He had two brothers and two sisters. He had cattle, a dog and a horse. As a child his daily chores were milking cows and splitting and hauling wood. He was very proud of his dad, Harry Salter Sr., who owned his own sawmill. He walked to school in Gould City where he took math, social studies, science, etc. To get in to a movie he paid five cents; for a candy bar it cost him only two cents.

The first paying job he had was at his dad’s sawmill. Grandpa loved baseball and was very good at it. His favorite team was the Detroit Tigers. Grandpa Harry earned awards in the armed service and in WWII in Panama and the Philippines. He also traveled to Florida, Washington state, Texas, and Canada. In his spare time he fished and hunted.

When he was in his sixties he started gaining weight. My grandpa’s nickname was Pete, or as my dad called him Skinny. When he was still alive Nicole, my sister, and I used to pick on him, because he didn’t have much hair. We used to brush it and he’d say," Don’t brush too much or I won’t have any hair left!" My dad’s favorite memory of his father is when Grandpa and my dad were at a Detroit Tiger’s, baseball game, and my grandpa was saying what a good ball player my dad was to the person next to him and they were talking like my dad was not even there. My grandpa married a woman named Mary in 1944. They where going on their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary, when he died of a heart attack, while shaving at the Newberry Annex. Grandpa Harry Salter left behind twenty-eight grand children and thirteen great grand children.

Samatha Salter

Fifth Grade

Engadine Elementary School

Thank you to my dad, Eugene Salter, who gave me information about his dad, my grandpa, so that I could write the biography of Harry Salter Jr.