Yolo-Amador-Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Welch, J. J. 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

J. J. WELCH,-a prominent farmer of Yolo County, first crossed the plains to
California in 1850. He is a native of Monroe County, Kentucky. His parents,
Richard and Jane (Harlan) Welch, were also natives of that State; his father was
a farmer and blacksmith. At the age of twenty-two years Mr. Welch spent six
months in Missouri, and then came on to California and began mining in Amador
County; in the fall of 1851 he located in Yolo County; was in Los Angeles County
from 1869 to 1874, and since then on his present well improved ranch of eighty
acres; he raises live stock and alfalfa. He married Martha Browning, a native of
Kentucky, and they have two children living; and they have had two who are now
deceased. Three of the family are members of the Christian Church.

Additional Comments:
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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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