Logan County KyArchives Biographies.....Welborn, William G. 
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Author: Mrs. J. Wells Vick

    Prof. Welborn is one of the four to whom this history is being dedicated.
The following biography is largely taken from the Jan. 3rd issue of the Western
Recorder (1957) and written by Mrs. Raymond H. Gorrell. Prof. Welborn was born
February 22, 1869 in Muhlenberg County near Greenville, Ky.; he was one of eight
children; his father, Rev. F. M. Welborn, was a Baptist minister. Prof. Welborn
was and still is a great reader; his mind is very alert when almost 90 years of
age.

    He entered Bethel College in 1890, graduating four years later. He made the
teaching profession his life's work. It was while he was principal of the high
school in Ridgeway, Va. that he met Miss Stella Trent whom he married in 1899.
They had one daughter, Morton Rice Welborn, who married Dr. John F. Conn, who is
at present an instructor in Stetson College at De Land, Fla. Among the schools
in which he taught were Campbellsville and Bethel College. He was the founder of
Campbellsville College, which was first known as Russell Creek Baptist Academy.

    It was in 1917 that Prof. and Mrs. Welborn came to Russellville where he
taught until it closed its doors during the depression. He taught Latin and
mathematics at Bethel College.

    When he returned to Russellville in 1917 he began immediately to teach in
the Sunday School in the Russellville First Baptist Church, which to date makes
a total of forty-one years, around thirty of which has been the Euzelian Ladies'
Class. For many years he has been a deacon in his church.


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