BIO: Titus M. WELSH, Beaver County, PA
  
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  BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
  of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
  Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 191-192.
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  TITUS M. WELSH is superintendent of the Union Water Company of Beaver Falls,
  Pa., in which capacity he has efficiently served since the first of January,
  1895. He is a prominent and well-to-do citizen and is always interested in
  the growth and prosperity of his adopted borough; his birthplace was in
  Chippewa township, in this county, and he is a son of John W. and Jeannette
  (Garwood) Welsh, and a grandson of Andrew Welsh.
  
  The great-grandfather of the subject hereof was James Welsh, who was of Welsh
  extraction. His son, Andrew, the grandfather of Titus M., was the member of
  the family who came to this country, and he is classed among the old settlers
  of Chippewa township, Beaver county, Pa., having taken up a large tract of
  land there; his occupation was farming. Politically, he was an Old Line Whig,
  and later a Republican; he served as justice of the peace of Chippewa
  township, and was popularly known as "Squire" Welsh. He was a soldier in the
  War of 1812, and was at Erie when Commodore Perry overwhelmingly defeated the
  British squadron. He was married to Keziah Newkirk and they reared a family of
  children, one of whom was John W.
  
  John W. Welsh was born on his father's farm in Chippewa township, in 1826,
  and there spent his entire life tilling the soil; he passed from this earth
  in 1894. In politics, he was a Republican, while religiously, he was a member
  of the Methodist church. His union with the mother of the subject hereof
  resulted in the birth of the following children: Titus M.; Moses B.,
  deceased; Franklin P., a resident of Beaver Falls; Ira E., who is a farmer
  living in Erie county, Pa.; Phoebe, who is the wife of Ollie J. Wallace, of
  Homewood, Beaver county; Andrew Morris, deceased; Lucius Wright, deceased;
  Lizzie J., who is the wife of William Wallace of Thompson, Beaver county;
  Addie K., who was wedded to Chauncey Robinson, of Connellsville, Pa.; Richard
  W., who resides at Mahoningtown, Pa.; and one who died in its infancy.
  
  Titus M. Welsh obtained a thorough intellectual training in the public
  schools of Chippewa township and at Beaver Academy, but the practical portion
  of his education was received through actual business experience. He worked on
  the homestead until a year after his marriage, in 1867, and then moved to
  Beaver Falls, where he accepted a position as file hardener in the file works
  of that borough. After continuing in that capacity for two years, he went to
  Conneautville, Crawford county, Pa., where he spent one year, as a partner in
  a carriage wheel factory, which was subsequently destroyed by fire, - Mr.
  Welsh thus sustaining a severe loss. Returning to Beaver Falls he took up his
  former position in the file works, but in 1880, he entered the employ of
  Emerson, Smith & Company as steam engineer; after remaining in their service
  ten years he. lost his position during a
  
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  strike, but afterwards accepted a like situation with the Carnegie Company.
  In September, 1894, Mr. Welsh resigned from this connection, and, at the
  beginning of the following year, entered upon his present work as
  superintendent of the Union Water Company of Beaver Falls.
  
  In politics, Mr. Welsh is a Republican, and served three years as a member of
  the council from the sixth ward, and also as a congressional delegate.
  Socially, he is a member of the I. O. O. F., also of the Encampment of Beaver
  Falls; and of the Woodmen of the World. His marriage to Miss Lizzie J. In-man,
  a daughter of Azariah and Jane Inman, was blessed by the birth of five
  children: Frank I., who is employed in the American Steel Works of Beaver
  Falls; Albertice A., who died aged two years; Lorena M., who died aged seven
  years; Clyde W., who works in the same mill as does his brother, Frank I.;
  and Wilber L., who is engaged with L. D. Clark, wholesale confectioner,
  Beaver Falls.