The following is from a 1911 biography about Edward and his father:
In 1852 our subject crossed the Atlantic
on an English sailing vessel, the St. George, which was seven
weeks in making the voyage, during which time there were two very
severe storms. On landing in New York, Mr. Welsh was met by his
brother James, who had come to the United States in 1850. For two
years he worked as a stone-mason in New York and then went to
Dixon, Illinois, where he was employed as a farm hand for seven
years. In 1858 he come to Clinton county, Iowa, and purchased
eighty acres of land at thirty dollars per acre, it being a
government claim owned by Paddy Flynn. With an ox team Mr. Welsh
drove to Maquoketa, where he got his deed made out. At that time
there were no houses between his place and Lyons, and the country
round about was all wild prairie. Returnig to Illinois, Mr. Welsh
engaged in farming on rented land until 1861, when he erected a
small house upon his farm in this county and located thereon. He
broke the land with ox teams and soon had the place under a high
state of cultivation. Prospering in his new home, he added to his
landed possessions until at the time of his death he had three
hundred and sixty acres, to which his widow and son have since
added a tract of one hundred and twenty acres on section
six. Washington township, while the original farm is on sections
seventeen and eighteen.
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