BORN IN: New York
DIED: 9/30/1889
AGED: 59
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City
OCCUPATION: Justice of the Peace
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BURIED IN UNION CEMETERY WITH THE SAME LAST NAME:
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CURRENT EVENTS:- 1831 Reaper (Cyrus McCormick)
- 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
- 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
- 1846 Mexican-American War
- 1849 California Gold Rush
- 1850 California became the 31st State
- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
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From the public domain book:
History of San Mateo County, California
, published in 1883
Judge R. C. Welch is a native of Dutchess county, New York, where he
was born in 1832. He accompanied his parents to Montgomery county, in
that State, and sailed from New York City in the bark Henry Harbeck, Capt.
T. G. Merwin, commanding, February 8, 1849, for California. He was a
member of the Mohawk Mining Association, and among others of this company
now living in San Mateo county who accompanied Judge Welch on this expedition
are J. G. and George Moore. The Harbeck rounded Cape Horn and
landed its passengers safely in San Francisco October 15, 1849. It was a very
adventurous voyage. Before leaving New York they made an agreement with
Captain Merwin that they should be furnished with certain specified provisions,
but the captain failed to fulfil his part of the agreement, and as a natural
consequence the passengers began to object to the fare they were receiving.
The captain paid no attention to these objections, and some of the younger
men, Mr. Welch among the number, made such rebellious demonstrations that
an order was made to place the latter in irons. A six shooter presented at the
head of the captain, however, pursuaded that worthy that the attempt to carry
out the order would prove disastrous, and Mr. Welch was allowed to complete
his voyage in peace. He remained in San Francisco only a few days, during
which time he ascertained that the Mohawk Mining Association was as dead
as the old chief himself, He began operations on his own account at Wood's
Creek, Tuolumne county, and shortly after mined on Sullivan's creek in the
same county, subsequently drifting about among the other camps of the southern
mines until two of his companions died, when he returned to San Francisco.
In the spring of 1850 he went to Downieville, where he remained six months,
when he purchased a mule and returned to San Francisco, riding through
San Mateo county. Mr. Welch was taken sick in San Francisco and determined
to go to sea. He bought an interest in a ship, but as the voyage did
not seem to benefit his health, he left the vessel at Acapulco. Here he bought
a horse and traveled through Mexico to Santa Cruz, and thence to the eastern
states, returning to California in 1852. He again went east in 1853, and
returned to this State in 1855. In 1863 he settled at Olema, Marin county,
and came to San Mateo county in 1865, where he was engaged as the superintendent
of the Horace Hawes ranch. He afterwards moved to the coast, but
returned to Redwood where he has since lived. He is the incumbent police
judge of that place. He married H. A. Bartlett, and they have two children,
Walter R. and Lillie Florence.
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