Lieu. H. Welty (biography)

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Taken from History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler

LIEUT. H. WELTY, Justice of the Peace, was born in Fayette County, Penn., in 1828, but was raised in Stark County, Ohio.  In 1849, he migrated to Iowa, but returned to Ohio the following year, locating in Henry County. where he taught school for eleven years, the most of the time in the same school room.  In 1961, he enlisted in the Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving three months, then served three years in the Sixty-eighth Ohio Infantry, serving two years in the ranks, when he was promoted, receiving a First Lieutenant's commission.  After coming out of the army, he remained in Ohio until 1870, when he came to Kansas, locating at Elk Falls, and took a claim on Section 2, Townhip 31, Range 11.  He was seventy miles from a railroad point the first year, and for ten years after was forty miles from a railroad.  He improved his place, and lived there until 1881.  In 1872, he traveled all through Howard County, and visited every house and dugout in the county, working against the division of the county, and to keep the county seat at this place.  He was elected Justice of the peace in 1873, and has held the office continuously since.  He was married, in the spring on 1851, to Miss Ann Feeny, of Henry County, Ohio.  They have two sons--F. W. and D. F.  He is a member of the Meridian Lodge No. 126, A. F. & A. M. and is Commander of Rollins Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Elk Falls.

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