Welsh, Charles, 1850-1914

Charles Welsh was born in Ramsgate, Kent, England on December 22, 1850, to Charles and Susannah Welsh. After attending national schools in Ashford, Kent, Welsh trained as a blacksmith in addition to receiving certificates in arithmetic, English literature and French. In 1868, Welsh went to work for The British Trade Journal as a reporter, using his knowledge of mechanics to write about new agricultural machinery. A publishing career soon followed with positions at Henry S. Ring & Co., (1870), and the Griffith Farran Co., (1877), where Welsh would eventually become a partner in 1884.

Welsh later moved to the United States, and in 1895 began work as the business manager and assistant editor at Art Amateur magazine. Welsh was soon considered a specialist of juvenile literature for the publication and in the years to follow he wrote and published many English and Irish themed works aimed at the young adult audience.

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