F. Horace Salmon - Retail Merchant
Horace Salmon Childhood - 1888-1906
Antigua, British West Indies
Horace Salmon was born at Richmond Estate in St. Paul's Parrish, Antigua in the British West Indies on April 28, 1888. His father owned Richmond and Barron's, another sugar estate to the northwest. After the home at Richmond's burned two years later, his dad, James Frances Nelson Salmon (1841- 1909) known as "Frank Salmon," took a job as Caretaker of Nelson's Dockyard at English Harbour, where the family lived for a decade. Frank moved the family into the capitol city of St. John's about 1900 and 12 year old Horace went to work for a mercantile store to help support the family.
In 1906, when 18, Horace and his friend George Pilkington set sail on a steamship for New York City, hoping to settle in Chicago. The story continues in the next chapter.