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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [287-288]

           JOHN F. WELCH, Probate Register of Huron County, was born Feb.
        14, 1845, in Massillon, Ohio.  He is the son of SAMUEL W. and
        EUNICE C. (FORD) WELCH.  The family removed in 1848 to Palmyra
        Lenawee Co., Mich., where the father died, in 1872. The mother
        resides at present in Douglas, Allegan Co., Mich.
           MR. WELCH was reared on a farm until the year preceding his
        majority. He received a good common school education, and taught
        school about five years in Lenawee County. In October, 1870, he
        entered the Law Department of the University of Michigan at Ann
        Arbor, where he was graduated in the spring of 1872. Soon after
        that event, her established his office at Morenci, in Lenawee
        County, where he continued the practice of his profession until
        February, 1881, the date of his removal to Bad Axe. On coming
        hither, MR. WELCH associated his business with that of J. H. HALL,
        of Port Austin, and C. S. HALL, of Sand Beach, being established at
        the several places.  This relation existed until the fall of 1882,
        since which date MR. WELCH has transacted his business singly. He
        is now acting Probate Register, and attending to the duties of his
        legal connections. He belongs to the Masonic Order and to the
        Knights of Maccabees. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of
        the Graded Schools at Bad Axe. His wife, MRS. IDA E. (SWINDELL)
        WELCH, was born Nov. 17, 1855, in Morenci. She is the daughter of
        CHARLES and ELIZABETH E. SWINDELL, and belongs to one of the
        earliest pioneer families of Adrian. She was married to MR. WELCH
        Jan. 9, 1878, and is the mother of two children, — OSA F., born
        Jan. 18, 1880, in Morenci, and JOHN F., born Feb. 3, 1883, in Bad
        Axe.

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