Welch, John Stanley
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John Shaw Welch was born in Paradise, Utah on July 28, 1888. He attended college at the Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah. After graduation he married Eulalia Sorenson and took a job as superintendent of the University of Idaho Experiment Station in Gooding, Idaho. In 1917, he was called to become principal of the Maori Agricultural College in New Zealand, a position he held for three years. He joined the Twin Falls Land & Water Company as an agriculturist on his return to the United States in 1920. In 1927 he was appointed Idaho Commissioner of Agriculture and served until 1931. During a trip east, he contracted encephalitis and had health problems for the rest of his life. Complications associated with this disease caused his death on August 21, 1947.
From the description of My father, John Shaw Welch, 2003. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 53213309
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