WILLIAM C. WELSH
William C. Welsh, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Sweet) Welsh, was born in Knox county, Ohio, September 18, 1855. He lived in his native State until 1859, then removed with his parents, to Bureau county, Illinois, where he was reared and educated. He was employed as clerk in a store in Buda, in Bureau county, from 1870, then engaged upon the railroad for three years. After this he was engaged in mercantile business until he removed to Cass county in the spring of 1878. He settled at that time, on the farm where he now lives, in the northwest quarter of section 25, of Brighton township. It was then unimproved. Mr. Welsh is engaged in stock raising, and is at present, intending to make a specialty of Holstein cattle. He was married in Suda, Illinois, to Katie P. Murphy, September 6, 1875. She is a native of Pennsylvania. They have two children...E. Fay and George G. Mr. Welsh is a Republican, politically.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 595.
