When John Henry Welsh was born on 6 January 1882, in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin, United States, his father, John William Welsh, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Frances Oaks, was 27. He married Susan Ansie Peters on 8 December 1904, in Maquoketa, Jackson, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Washington Township, Dubuque, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 6 January 1951, in Table Mound Township, Dubuque, Iowa, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Key West, Dubuque, Iowa, United States.
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A fire erupted on January 10, 1883, at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee. The fire began at 4:00 am in an elevator shaft and raced up through the building. The fire spread so quickly that many could not escape. General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, stars of P.T. Barnum's circus, were guests in the hotel at the time of the fire. A firefighter reached them by ladder and they were able to escape safely. The exact number of deaths remains unknown as the hotel register was destroyed in the fire, however, the death toll is estimated between 75-90.
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
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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