Biographical Sketch of John S. Welch, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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John S. Welch, of the firm of Studebaker & Welch, wholesale and retail
dealers in carriages and wagons, is a native of Ashland County, Ohio,
and was born April 1, 1844. He was raised to manhood and educated in
South Bend, Indiana. In 1865, in company with the Studebaker Bros.,
of wagon manufacturing celebrity, he established a repository in St.
Joseph which Mr. Welch managed until 1871, when, in company with the
Studebaker Brothers he opened a factory, which for five years consti-
tuted one of the leading manufacturing industries in the city. They
then ceased manufacturing in St. Joseph and now have all their stock
built at South Bend. Their repository is the largest in the Northwest
and their trade of corresponding magnitude. Mr. Welch was married in
1867, to Miss Hattie Rathburn, of Missouri. They have four children:
Philip, Edith, John S. and Oliver. Mr. Welch is a member of the
Masonic Order.

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