When Charles Salmans was born on 10 May 1875, in Hamden, Vinton, Ohio, United States, his father, Silas Salmans, was 29 and his mother, Catharine Crow, was 29. He married Kathryn B Archer about 1918, in Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Hamden, Clinton Township, Vinton, Ohio, United States in 1900. He died on 9 October 1971, in Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Byesville, Guernsey, Ohio, United States.