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Welty, Edwin Arthur

financier, poet, was born Dec. 5, 1853, in Canal Dover, Ohio. He received his education in the public schools of St. Joseph, Mo., and graduated from the High school in 1872 with highest honors.

At the age of eighteen Edwin crossed the plains and spent six months in the Rocky Mountains, and afterward engaged in the attack and massacre of Major Thornburg's command. Returning from Colorado and New Mexico after some years of desultory roving, he settled into business life as broker in St. Joseph, Mo., and finally in Oregon, Mo., where he now resides. He has taken a prominent part in political affairs, and in 1888 was a delegate to the national republican convention at Chicago, and was a candidate for state senator. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled The Hollow Oak; Border Ballads and Forest Legends; and his poems have appeared in the leading magazines, Poets of America, and other standard works.