J.M. Welbourn

Arizona, the Youngest State, 1913
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J.M. Welbourn who since 1908 has been engaged in the grocery 
and meat business in Bisbee with S.C. Dodds, was born in 
Jackson County Illinois in 1870 and is a son of Alexander and 
Margaret Welbourn.

Reared in the parental home in the acquirement of an education, 
J.M. Welbourn attendedthe public schools of his native state 
where he continued to reside until 1907.  In October 
of that year he came west, locating at Bisbee Arizona and nine 
months later he became associated with S.C. Dodds in 
establishing the store in Tombstone Canyon, 
where they are still conducting business.  In April 1914, 
the firm established a branch store in the Johnson addition 
to Bisbee where the same high standard of business and 
merchandise is maintained.  They have prospered in their 
undertaking and now own thebuildings in which their stores 
are located and have also acquired some local mining and 
property interests.

In Illinois on the 6th of January 1895, Mr. Wellbourn was 
married to Miss Emma A. Kelley, a native of that state, 
where she was likewise reared and educated.