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CLARK GARRETT WELSH
Succeeding well in life’s affairs,
Clark Garrett Welsh has become one of the well-known ranchers of San Joaquin
County, where he has devoted himself to the agricultural and viticultural industries. He is the son of Garrett and Emma (Stuck)
Welsh, and was born in Sioux City, Iowa, October 25, 1882. Garrett Welsh was a farmer and later moved to
Mitchell South Dakota, where he bought a section of land and raised grain,
remaining there until 1904, when he came to California and bought an
eighty-acre ranch on the Mokelumne River, sixty acres of which was in vineyard
and the balance bottom land. The family
resided on this ranch until 1909, when it was sold and the parents removed to
Oakland, California, where they now reside.
There were two sons, Clark Garrett and Raymond N.
The early mental training of Clark
Garrett Welsh began in the grammar schools near Mitchell, South Dakota, and
after his parents moved to San Joaquin County he attended the grammar school at
Woodbridge and the Stockton high school.
After his school days were over, he was employed in San Francisco until
his marriage, which occurred in Stockton, May 20, 1915, and united him with
Miss Beatrice Snedigar, a daughter of Dr. Willis
Spencer and Mary Ann (Sollinger) Snedigar. In 1852 Grandfather Thomas F. Snedigar crossed the plains to California and settled in
Stanislaus County, where he engaged in farming and stockraising, becoming a
large landowner. The biography of Dr.
Willis S. Snedigar appears on another page in this
history. Beatrice Welsh was born in
Stockton. She was reared in an
atmosphere of culture and refinement, and presides gracefully over their home. The union has been blessed with five
children: Kenneth S., Donald James,
Bonnie Jean, Enid Laverne, and Willis Clark.
Mrs. Welsh inherited a 32-acre full-bearing vineyard from her mother, on
which Mr. and Mrs. Welsh make their home.
They not only operate their own place but also Grandmother Sollinger’s vineyard of twenty acres adjoining, and they
are meeting with deserved success. In
politics, Mr. Welsh is a Republican. He
is devotedly attached to San Joaquin County and deeply interested in its
welfare and progress, and has found no place more attractive than the one he
has chosen for his home.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
720-723. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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