Charles Eskridge Saltzman (September 19, 1903 – June 16, 1994) was an American soldier, businessman and State Department official.

Saltzman's father's military career meant that he lived in a variety of places growing up: the Philippines, Washington, D.C., New York City, and Panama.

[1] After graduating from high school in New York, Saltzman spent a year at Cornell University and then entered the United States Military Academy at West Point.

[2] After Saltzman completed his studies, the United States Army posted him to Camp A.A. Humphreys where he served as a lieutenant in a combat engineer company.

After the Attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he was appointed assistant to the chief signal officer in the United States Department of War.

Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, canon of the Washington Cathedral in the drawing room of the Lamont home in Kalorama Circle.

Gertrude was a daughter of Robert Patterson Lamont, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Herbert Hoover, who attended the wedding.

[7] Cynthia was a daughter of Marian Susan Washburn and Julian Southall Myrick, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.