He was a member of the Central New York Methodist Episcopal Conference and trustee of Myrtle Hill Cemetery.

[5] On December 3, 1895, Bert Salisbury was married to Mary Patterson Pharis of Syracuse who was born on June 24, 1871, in Geddes.

She was the daughter of Mills Patterson Pharis and Eliza Anne Webb (born in January, 1834), of 600 Lowell Avenue.

[1] Mary was an 1894 fine arts graduate of Syracuse University, a music teacher and a member of Alpha Phi fraternity.

[7] The family lived at 1810 West Genesee Street in Syracuse and their summer home was located on Fourth Lake in the Adirondack Mountains.

[1] By 1940, the family had moved to 315 Berkeley Drive[8] which was designed by prominent Syracuse architect, Dwight James Baum.

He was married on September 20, 1930, to Dorothy MacMillan, daughter of E. J. McMillan, well known in Canton, New York in South Presbyterian Church in Syracuse.

Son, Henry Webb Salisbury, was a pilot for Northwest Airlines, residing in Minneapolis, Minn.

Salisbury had homes in both Central New York at 35 Lyndon Road in Fayetteville and Vero Beach, Florida, where he died on April 6, 1990.

His wife, Ethel, died on April 4, 2004, while residing in Marblehead, Massachusetts, where their daughter, Judith, lived.

[13] The couple had three children:[13] Salisbury Road in Westvale, New York, a suburb on the west side of Syracuse was named after him.