Jessamine County KyArchives Biographies.....Welch, T. R. 1860 - 
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Author: Bennett H. Young

Dr. T. R Welch.

   On the one-hundredth anniversary of the existence of Nicholasville, Jessamine
county is part of the Senatorial district in which are included Woodford and
Scott counties. The Senator from this district is Thomas R. Welch, M. D., an
able and successful homeopathic physician, now residing in Nicholasville, in
which place he was born on the 4th of February, 1860.

   He was educated at Bethel Academy under Professor Gordon, and is a graduate
of the Wesleyan College. He taught in the city schools of Nicholasville and
graduated from the Hahnemann College in 1885, and from that time on has
practiced in Jessamine county. He is a member of the Board of Examiners for the
schools of the county, of the Nicholasville Board of Education, the State
Homeopathic Association and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He is also
a member of the Baptist church and of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias.

   He has been earnest and faithful in the discharge of his duties in his
profession. In 1879 the Twenty-second Senatorial district, of which Jessamine
was a part, became a political battle-ground. It was the home district of the
Hon. J. C. S. Blackburn, and the Hon. Henry L. Martin was nominated on a
platform antagonistic to Senator Blackburn's views. Jessamine county, by
courtesy, was entitled to name the Democratic candidate, and a strong popular
man was required. By a unanimous demand Dr. Welch was called to make the race
for Blackburn. His majority in the district was 2,454, an extraordinary
manifestation of the confidence of the people of the district. Jessamine county
gave him an almost unprecedented majority of 977 votes. His conduct in the
legislature justified the confidence of his district. He took a prominent part
in the deliberations of that historical legislature.


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.


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