Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Welch, William H. 1833 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

WILLIAM H. WELCH, Superintendent of the County Hospital of Yolo County, is a son
of Robert and Jane (Crawford) Welch, natives of Kentucky. His father, a farmer
by occupation, raised the first barley on the plains of Yolo County and died in
1854, at the age of fifty-four years, within three miles of Woodland. His mother
died about 1871, at the age of sixty-eight years, in Yolo County. The subject of
this sketch was born in Tennessee, December 11, 1833; in 1854 he came to
California across the plains, stopping first in this county, within three miles
of Woodland, where for some time he followed farming and ran a trading store at
Buckeye for four years, and also a store in Woodland two years. For an
exception, it can be said of him that he never struck a pick in the mines. He
was elected to position in February, 1888, and is well known as an industrious
man who deserves all he receives and even more. He is well liked at the hospital
and by the people generally. The average number of inmates at this institution
is about twenty-five; and among them there is at present a lady, named Ellen
Smith, who is aged 103 years, being born in Dublin, Ireland; and she is
remarkably active. The hospital stands on forty acres of well improved land,
where Mr. Welch raises some fine hogs, as well as fruit and other farm produce. 

  He was married in Tennessee, to Susan Pinkley, a native of Macon County, that
State, who died in 1861, in Yolo County, leaving three children: Mattie, now the
wife of A. G. Reed, and living in Woodland; W. F., a resident of Woodland, and
R. L., a resident of Colusa, this State.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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