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business was handed over to his son Daniel Salt, he in turn 

 carried it on but for a few years. This Daniel Salt was married 

 on 5th July 1802, to Grace Smithies, of the Old Manor 

 House, Morley. Her father had been a drysalter, and for a 

 short period her young husband carried on this business. In 

 personal appearance he has been described as a plain, blunt, 

 Yorkshire man, with a strong muscular figure, and an impedi- 

 ment in his speech. In business he was noted for energy and 

 industry. His wife was of a delicate constitution, of a retiring 

 disposition, and with sweet manners. She belonged to a 

 dissenting church, and was an earnest Christian woman. 



Titus Salt, the first son of a large family, was born at the 

 Old Manor House, Morley, Yorkshire, on the 20th September 

 1803. The village of his nativity, situated about four miles from 

 Leeds, is said to have numbered but 2100 inhabitants at the 

 time of his birth, although it has since grown until it numbers 

 about 13,000. The people of the place had something of the 

 old Puritan spirit about them, observing the Sabbath very 

 strictly, keeping up the good habit of family worship, and were 

 almost without exception Dissenters. Young Titus inherited 

 his father's strong constitution, and in the words of one of his 

 playmates, 'he was a bright boy for his years, full of fun when 

 with those whom he knew well, but shy with strangers.' His 

 first school was a dame school, where he learned to read ; and 

 in his ninth year, he attended a school at Batley in the neigh- 

 bourhood. Batley was fully six miles from Morley, which was 

 a very considerable walk for such a young lad. He carried his 

 own dinner, consisting of oatcake and milk. This milk he was 

 obliged to supply himself with before he left home, by milking 

 the cow in the dark mornings. 



Like many other great men, he was mostly indebted to his 



