Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameUNNAMED 
Spouses
Birth8 Feb 1903, Kansas5947
Removalabt 1906, San Francisco, San Francisco, California5948 Age: 2
EducationStanford University5948
FatherCapt. Lyman M. WELCH (1875-1946)
MotherEdith Belle KNOWLTON (1876-1960)
Individual Notes
• I am not sure. Could he have been called Jack instead of Lyman, JR.? I think Jack was a college friend of my Dad’s as well as a relative.
There is another person, Whiting Welch, who lived in SF on Clay Street throughout my childhood and came to all holiday dinners, as well as weddings, etc. I remember my mother calling him her “kissing cousin” and I also thought that he was somehow related to the Chase family that my grandmother Edna’s sister Mabel married into—yet I am really foggy on this. I think he died in late 1980’s or early 1990’s in San Francisco. He was a Stockbroker at Sutro and Co. (company named probably changed over the years). From the time I knew him as a little girl, he was divorced. Think he had one or maybe a couple of daughters. I recall one being named Babsy---short for Elizabeth? My sister may remember as she and Babsy used to see each other quite a bit when we were kids. Maybe Babsy married into the Chase family and that is Chase connection that I am recalling.
From: Dave Mills [mailto:davemills68@mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 4:11 PM
To: Rebecca Matteson Nelson
Subject: Good news! I’m quitting for the day...
I was curious as to the Welch connection. Can’t figure out the best man, Jack. Perhaps another son, not with the parents in the 1920 Census.5950
• Signed guest book at wedding of Joy Folger Matteson and Eleanor Carlisle Eckart.542, p 3
• [excerpts] Whiting Welch, a longtime San Francisco investment adviser who lunched on chocolate milk shakes, played tennis in black dress socks and drove around town in his 90s in an unwashed yellow Cadillac, died Sunday of a respiratory illness in San Francisco. He was 93.
“He did things his way,” said his daughter, Barbara Cook.
A native of Kansas City, Kan., Mr. Welch came to San Francisco shortly after the 1906 earthquake, graduated from Lowell High School and Stanford University, and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.
For more than 50 years, he administered family and charitable trusts for many prominent San Franciscans. He was the former president of the Avery-Fuller Children’s Center Foundation, which awarded grants to disabled children.
Surviving is his daughter, of New Canaan, Conn., and four grandchildren.5948
There is another person, Whiting Welch, who lived in SF on Clay Street throughout my childhood and came to all holiday dinners, as well as weddings, etc. I remember my mother calling him her “kissing cousin” and I also thought that he was somehow related to the Chase family that my grandmother Edna’s sister Mabel married into—yet I am really foggy on this. I think he died in late 1980’s or early 1990’s in San Francisco. He was a Stockbroker at Sutro and Co. (company named probably changed over the years). From the time I knew him as a little girl, he was divorced. Think he had one or maybe a couple of daughters. I recall one being named Babsy---short for Elizabeth? My sister may remember as she and Babsy used to see each other quite a bit when we were kids. Maybe Babsy married into the Chase family and that is Chase connection that I am recalling.
From: Dave Mills [mailto:davemills68@mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 4:11 PM
To: Rebecca Matteson Nelson
Subject: Good news! I’m quitting for the day...
I was curious as to the Welch connection. Can’t figure out the best man, Jack. Perhaps another son, not with the parents in the 1920 Census.5950
• Signed guest book at wedding of Joy Folger Matteson and Eleanor Carlisle Eckart.542, p 3
• [excerpts] Whiting Welch, a longtime San Francisco investment adviser who lunched on chocolate milk shakes, played tennis in black dress socks and drove around town in his 90s in an unwashed yellow Cadillac, died Sunday of a respiratory illness in San Francisco. He was 93.
“He did things his way,” said his daughter, Barbara Cook.
A native of Kansas City, Kan., Mr. Welch came to San Francisco shortly after the 1906 earthquake, graduated from Lowell High School and Stanford University, and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.
For more than 50 years, he administered family and charitable trusts for many prominent San Franciscans. He was the former president of the Avery-Fuller Children’s Center Foundation, which awarded grants to disabled children.
Surviving is his daughter, of New Canaan, Conn., and four grandchildren.5948
Census Data
• 1910 Census: San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Age 7, b KS. Parents b CA. Listed as Lyman W Welch.574
• 1920 Census: San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Age 16, b KS. Parents b CA.5536
• 1930 Census: San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Age 27, b KS. Single. Floorman, Stocks. Parents b CA. Living with parents.5537
• 1920 Census: San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Age 16, b KS. Parents b CA.5536
• 1930 Census: San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Age 27, b KS. Single. Floorman, Stocks. Parents b CA. Living with parents.5537
Children(Private, Female)