Leverett Saltonstall II

Leverett Saltonstall (March 16, 1825 – April 16, 1895) was an American political figure who served as Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston.

Early life Leverett Saltonstall (right) sitting next to his Harvard classmate Charles William Dabney Jr. and an unidentified friend, A member of the Saltonstall family, Saltonstall was born on March 16, 1825, in Salem, Massachusetts. He was a son of Mary Elizabeth ( Sanders) Saltonstall and Leverett Saltonstall I, who served as the first mayor of Salem.

Saltonstall graduated from Harvard College in 1844 and studied law at Harvard Law School and with the firm of Sohier & Welch. He was admitted to the bar in 1850.

Personal life and death

In 1854, Saltonstall was married to Rose Smith Lee (1835–1903), a daughter of John Clarke Lee. Together, they were the parents of four sons and two daughters. Rose Lee Saltonstall (1861–1891), who married Dr. George Webb West, son of George West, in 1884. After his death in 1891, she married John S. Curtis. Endicott Peabody Saltonstall (1872–1922), who married Elizabeth Baldwin Dupee, a daughter of William Richardson Dupee, in 1898.

Saltonstall died on April 16, 1895, at his home in Chestnut Hill in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Descendants Through his son Richard, he was a grandfather of Massachusetts Governor and United States Senator Leverett Saltonstall.

Through his youngest son Endicott, he was a grandfather of art teacher Elizabeth Saltonstall.