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About Henry C. Welles
- Henry Carter Welles (May 13, 1821 – July 7, 1868) was an American druggist and businessman.
- He is thought of as one of the founders of Memorial Day, along with former Union General John B.
- Murray.Welles was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut in 1821 to Henry and Sila Welles.
- She was a distant cousin of her husband and shared the same last name.
- Henry’s father died when he was young and his mother moved the family to Waterloo, New York where her brother Gardner Welles worked as a physician. Welles went into the drug business with his cousin, Dr.
- Samuel R.
- Welles by 1855.
- He married Josephine Shotwell in 1857 and had two children, Sterling Hadley Welles and Helen Lavanche Welles, both of whom died in 1861.
- His cousin left the firm in 1858 but Henry continued with the drug store until he died in Waterloo on July 7, 1868.
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