Endicott Peabody Saltonstall

Saltonstall was born on December 25, 1872 to Leverett and Rose Saltonstall. He graduated Harvard College in 1894 and Harvard Law School in 1897. He played a few games for the Harvard Crimson football after spending a year on the freshman squad. On November 2, 1898 he married Elizabeth Baldwin Dupee in Brookline, Massachusetts.[1][2]

After law school, Saltonstall worked in the office of Nichols & Cobb in Boston. He then worked in the Boston Elevated Railway's legal department. From 1902 to 1905 he was affiliated with the firm of Richardson, Herrick & Neave. He then entered a partnership with Albert P. Carter and Robert G. Dodge. The partnership was dissolved in 1910. He later formed a partnership with Charles W. Blood.[1][2]

From 1899 to 1904, Saltonstall was a member of the Newton, Massachusetts Board of Aldermen.[1][2]

On October 5, 1921, Saltonstall was appointed District Attorney of Middlesex County by Governor Channing H. Cox. He succeeded Nathan A. Tufts, who had been removed from office for misconduct.[1][2] He named his law partner Charles W. Blood as his first assistant and his nephew, Leverett Saltonstall, as second assistant.[2][3] He was not a candidate in the 1922 election. Saltonstall died suddenly on December 19, 1922 at his home in Newton from an attack of phlebitis.[4]