Jessamine County KyArchives Biographies.....Welch, John Harrison ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com August 6, 2007, 10:31 pm Author: Bennett H. Young John Harrison Welch. John Harrison Welch, although comparatively a young man, has held quite a number of public offices in Jessamine county and is at present Master Commissioner of the Jessamine Circuit Court. He was born in Nicholasville. His great grandfather, John Welch, early settled in Jessamine county, having removed from Virginia to that county in 1782. Mr. Welch was educated at Bethel Academy; was also a graduate of Kentucky Wesleyan College, at Millersburg, in 1877. He graduated from the Louisville Law School in 1881, located in Nicholasville, where he has since practiced his profession. At twenty years of age, he was elected Superintendent of common schools of Jessamine county. He represented the county in the lower house of the General Assembly of Kentucky, in 1889 and '90, in '91, '92 and '93, and has been prominent in the county affairs since his majority. Additional Comments: Extracted from: A HISTORY OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1898. By BENNETT H. YOUNG, PRESIDENT POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; MEMBER FILSON CLUB; MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 1890; AUTHOR HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF KENTUCKY, OF "BATTLE OF BLUE LICKS, ETC, ETC. S. M. DUNCAN, ASSOCIATE AUTHOR. Every brave and good life out of the past is a treasure which cannot be measured in money, and should be preserved with faithfullest care. LOUISVILLE, KY.: COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO., 1898. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/jessamine/bios/welch434gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/