Glen Harry Welsh

Brief Life History of Glen Harry

When Glen Harry Welsh was born on 17 January 1919, in Zwingle, Dubuque, Iowa, United States, his father, John Henry Welsh, was 37 and his mother, Susan Ansie Peters, was 32. He had at least 3 sons with Margaret M Callan. He lived in United States in 1949 and Table Mound Township, Dubuque, Iowa, United States in 1950. He died on 27 November 1989, in Key West, Dubuque, Iowa, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Key West, Dubuque, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Glen Harry Welsh
1919–1989
Margaret M Callan
1920–2015
James G Welsh
1947–
Joseph Welsh
1948–
William H Welsh
1948–

Sources (12)

  • Glen H Welsh, "United States, Census, 1950"
  • Glenn Harold Welsh, "Iowa, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
  • Glenn H Welsh, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"

World Events (8)

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1922 · Oldest radio station west of the Mississippi

The Karlowa Radio Corporation, in Davenport, was issued a new license for broadcasting and with it they were randomly assigned call letters of WOC. The small studio was the first to reach the Iowa area and was identified as one of 21 stations that were desirable because of coverage area and performance. In September 1927, WOC became a member of the new NBC radio network and still is today. In 1932, Ronald Reagan got his first broadcasting job at WOC as a sportscaster and he returned in 1988 after his presidency tour. WOC is the oldest surviving broadcasting station in the middle Mississippi Valley and was the first to keep logs on their electrical consumption and their on-air programming.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

Scottish, English, and Irish: ethnic name from Middle English welshe (Old English wēalisc, wēlisc) ‘foreign, Welsh’, for someone from Wales or a speaker of the Welsh language. Compare Walsh and Wallace .

Americanized form of German Welsch .

Americanized form of Ukrainian and Jewish (from Ukraine) Voloshin or its Polish variant Wołoszyn (see Woloszyn ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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