Yolo County Biographies


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J. J. WELCH
 
a prominent farmer of Yolo County, first crossed the plains to California in 
1850.  He is a native of Monroe County, Kentucky.  His parents, Richard and Jane 
(Harlan) Welch, were also natives of that State; his father was a farmer and 
blacksmith.  At the age of twenty-two years Mr. Welch spent six months in 
Missouri, and then came on to California and began mining in Amador County; in 
the fall of 1851 he located in Yolo County; was in Los Angeles County from 1869 
to 1874, and since then on his present well improved ranch of eighty acres; he 
raises live stock and alfalfa.  He married Martha Browning, a native of 
Kentucky, and they have two children living; and they have had two who are now 
deceased.  Three of the family are members of the Christian Church.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler