1901 Bio - Welty, J.H., Larimer County, Colorado Transcribed by Marta Norton January 30, 2000 The Berthoud Bulletin Newspaper Saturday, September 7, 1901 (The following is a small portion of a big news article about Berthoud. I am only transcribing the bio part). In the following columns we are pleased to give the pictures and personal sketches of a number of the people who assisted in making this beautiful and prosperous county what it is: J.H. Welty Among those who have taken advantage of every opportunity to make farming successful in its various branches is J.H. Welty. It is often remarked of him that whatever he touches turns to money. Mr. Welty came to Berthoud before much rural development had been made. He was born near Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa. September 2, 1857. He was one of six children, among whom are Mrs. W.E. Bader, Mrs. A.A. Knott and G.F. Welty, all prominent people hereabout. His boyhood days were spent on his father’s farm. By the way, his father was Henry Welty, who also came to Colorado in the fall of 1878. Jake went to Illinois in company with A.A. Knott and Crowford McKee, making the trip overland. From there they came to Sumner County, Kansas. Mr. Welty took up land and got a deed for it, and after two years he drove through to Colorado and settled near Longmont. He was employed as a farm hand on the George Zweck Ranch on the St. Vrain River. In the meantime he made a trip to Buffalo, Wyoming, with a bunch of cattle for his employer. It was in 1885 that he bought his home quarter section of Dr. Chase. There was one little scrubby tree and a dugout upon it. The house was claimed to be haunted, and considerable excitement propelled about the time over reports of ghosts seen. For three years he kept “bachelor’s hall”, after which his sister came out and kept house for him several years. In 1889 he bought the quarter section adjoining him on the west. On September 24, 1891, Mr. Welty was married to Miss Augusta Zweck, daughter of his former employee. Mrs. Welty was born and raised in Colorado. Her father came to the state in 1859. He built the Zweck Hotel at Longmont and was third partner in the Prussian mine at Gold Hill. Their wedding trip was to eastern Iowa and lasted six weeks. They have one child whose name is Roy Virgil, born February 13, 1896. Mr. Welty owns altogether about 790 acres of land. He purchased Cliff Cottage Stock Farm in the mountain in partnership with W.C. Stiles. He stocked the ranch with sheep and cattle, now owning about 100 head of branded cattle. About 1890 he began feeding sheep. He and Mr. Knott were about the first to engage in the industry here. For the last three years Mr. Welty has raised lambs as an experiment and says he knows of no other business that pays better, owing to the value of the land. Last winter Mr. and Mrs. Welty took a trip to California, visiting Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Sacramento, returning by way of Ogden and Salt Lake City in Utah, and arriving home February 21st. =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the COGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.