Rodney Welch

   Cause of his death was stomach cancer.

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1850 Monmouth, Kennebec County, Maine Ebenezer Welch age 29 c1821 Maine [HOH] Sarah M. Welch age 27 Maine [wife] Rosalinda Welch age 64 NH [mother of Ebenezer] Maria Welch age 32 Maine; c1818 [sister] Rodney Welch age 22 Maine; student c1828 [brother]

in 1860: Worth, Cook, Illinois Rodney Welch b.1829 ME; teacher Abbie b. 1838 ME Dora b. 1854 KY John age 3mos b. IL

1865 Chicago, IL city directory -Rodney Welch; professor of chemistry Hahnemann Medical College; principal South Chicago School

census 1870: Chicago Ward 14, Cook, Illinois Rodney Welsh 42 ME; editor; Abbie F. 32; Helen M. 16 KY; Channing 10 IL; Mattie 8 IL and James 5 IL

1870 Chicago city directory - Rodney Welch; Editor of Prarie Farmer

1874 Chicago city Directory - Rodney Welch; scientific editor of Prarie Farmer

1875 Chicago city directory he is listed as Prof Rodney Welch, asst editor of Times

in 1880: Chicago, Cook, Illinois - Rodney Welsh 52; Abby 42; Dora 26; Chanie 20; Martha 18; James 15 and Henry 6.


1882 Chicago city directory- Rodney Welch; asst editor of Times

1885 Editorial writer for TheTimes

1889 Editorial writer

www.ancestry.com = In 1891 when he was age 63 he was issued a passport to go abroad for 2 years as a journalist.... at the time he was living in Chicago, IL

Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, Volume 2 By Newton Bateman, Paul Selby "Rodney Welch (deceased) educator and journalist was born in Monmouth, ME Nov 19, 1928 and died in Chicago May 29 1897. the farm on which he was born was granted to the family by Lady Temple, sister of the founder of Bowdoin College and is still in posession of the Welch family. Rodney welch graduated from Bowdoin College and became a school teacher. Coming to Illinois in 1855 he became the first principal of the Geneva High School. Later he was professor of chemistry in the old Chicago University and still later occupied the same chair in Hahnemann Medical College. He became associated with the Chicago press as one of the editord of the"Prairie Farmer" and subsequently was an editorial associate with Wilbur f. Story on the Chicago "Times" a connection that existed many years after the death of Mr. Story. Mr Welch was one of the founders of the Chicago Press Club and acted as its president for many years. he was also one of the founders of the Chicago Philosophical Society and the Saracen club, the latter at one time the leading literary club of Chicago. In 1853 he married Miss Abbie Frances Stevens of New Portland, Maine."

Rodney married Abigail Frances Stevens, daughter of Captain Harrison Stevens and Filinda Hill, in 1853. (Abigail Frances Stevens was born circa 1838 in Maine and died on 16 Oct 1886 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.)

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Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, Volume 2
By Newton Bateman, Paul Selby