Perry County AlArchives Biographies.....Welch, John C. 1845 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOHN C. WELCH, Mayor of Uniontown, was born September 6., 1845, in Itawamba
County, Miss. He is a son of Henry H. and Emily (Patterson) Welch, natives
respectively of North Carolina and Georgia. His father throughout his life was a
merchant, and died at his home in Mississippi, in 1885.

  Our subject attended the common schools at his home, until fifteen years old,
and then enlisted in the Confederate service, in that organization known as the
Confederate Guards' Artillery, under command of Captain Bradford. He remained in
active service throughout the course of the war, and during the time was in a
number of severe battles. Returning from the war, he located at Columbus, Miss.,
in 1865, where he began the jewelry business, and remained there six months. In
the early part of 1866., he came to Uniontown, and began the same business,
which he has enlarged by adding books and stationery. Mr. Welch has also been
closely identified with the city government of Uniontown for a number of years.
He was for more than eleven years a member of the city council, was city
treasurer for several years, and served as tax assessor. In March, 1887, he was
elected mayor of Uniontown, and has held the office ever since. He possesses
many of the traits which would give one standing in any locality, for to the
better instincts of the polished Christian gentleman, he adds the tact and
adaptiveness of the business man of the world, a combination at once calculated
to inspire confidence and esteem. It is needless to say that he has won such a
standing among those with whom he has resided for so long a time.

  John C. Welch was married in December, 1874, to Miss Carrie, a daughter of
Warren DuBose and H. H. Stewart, of Hale County, Ala. Their family consists of
four children—John C., Jr., Stewart H., Annie S. and Evelyn.

  Our subject is a member of the Masonic Order, a steward in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and secretary of the Sunday-school of Uniontown.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
COTTON BELT.


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