Edward Salomon was born August 11, 1827 in Prussia. He came to Manitowoc County in the fall of 1849 and taught one six month term at the First Ward school. He then moved to Manitowoc Rapids where he was learning surveying in the office of his brother Frederick. Edward soon became a clerk at the circuit court and became interested in law. By the winter of 1852 he took advantage of an opportunity to study law in the office of Edward G. Ryan in Milwaukee. In January of 1855 Edward was examined and admitted to the bar. The following year he entered into a law practice in Milwaukee with Mr. Winfield Smith, a partnership which would last thirteen years under the name of Smith & Salomon. In 1857 he served on the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin and the following year was married in Milwaukee to Elise Nebel. In the 1861 gubernatorial race Edward was nominated as Lieutenant Governor on the ticket with Louis P. Harvey, who was elected that fall. In April of the following year Governor Harvey was in Tennessee visiting Wisconsin troops after the battle of Shiloh and was drown in the Tennessee River at Pittsburg Landing on the 19th of April. Edward Salomon then assumed the duties as governor at only 33 years of age. He left office in January 1864 and resumed his legal profession until December of 1869 when he moved to New York City to continue practicing law, which he did until retiring and moving back to Germany where he lived until his death on April 21, 1909. He is burried at Frankfurt am Main. Edward, along with his three brothers were honored by the citizens of Manitowoc in 1927 with a granite monument erected on the courthouse lawn.