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WELCH, HON. S. K. The subject of this sketch was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, August 30, 1829, where
he resided until he was about twenty one years of age. He then moved to Missouri, where he studied law, and was,
in due course of time, admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of that State. In 1862 he came to California, and
to Lake County in June, 1865, where he has since continuously resided. From March, 1868, till March, 1872, two
terms, he held the office of District Attorney of Lake County. He was a member of the Legislature of 1873-4, representing
Napa and Lake Counties jointly. He was again elected to that position in 1877-8 by the people of Lake County alone,
it being then entitled to a representative. When Mr. Welch came to Lake County he found all the better portion
of it claimed by the claimants to a grant, which it was declared had been ceded to their predecessors by the Mexican
Government. Soon after his arrival he was employed by the settlers to take charge of their interests, and to render
the United States District Attorney ,all possible assistance in defeating the claimants. Upon investigation he
found the ease pending in the United States District Court at San Francisco, where it had been slumbering for some
years, after having been sent back to that Court for a new trial by the Supreme Court of the United States, upon
a reversal of judgment in favor of the claimants. He succeeded in getting the case docketed and noticed for trial.
The trial came up in September, 1866, at which the claimants were defeated, and in consequence thereof the settlers
got their lands, which even at that time were considerably improved and quite valuable. The full history of this
transaction will be found in the body of the work to which the reader is referred.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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