William Jennings Bryan Birth Place and Museum

408 South Broadway, U.S. Highway 37
Salem, IL 62881

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William Jennings Bryan was born in this home in 1860. The house was built for his father, Judge Silas M. BRYAN.

The house is on the National Register of Historical Places and on the Salem Historical Register.

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