Person:Daniel Welty (1)

Daniel Weldy, like his father, reared to the avocation of a farmer, and in his youth received but limited educational advantages. He remained at home till fifteen years of age, when his jmother died , and he was then practically thrown upon his own resources. Her rented land from his uncle and raised and bought tobacco, which he shipped to Pittsburgh, and the first $1,200 he made was lost in tobacco in the Pittsburgh fire in 1844. He came to Adams Co. Indiana in the fall of 1845, and in the spring bought the farm where he has since lived, which then contained eighty acres.