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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaAdonijah Strong WELCH
(1821-1889)
Senate Years of Service:
1868-1869Party: RepublicanWELCH, Adonijah Strong, a
Senator from Florida; born in East Hampton, Conn., April 12, 1821;
attended the public schools; moved to Michigan in 1839 and settled
in Jonesville; graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor in 1846; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847;
high school principal 1847-1849; principal of the Michigan State
Normal School, Ypsilanti, Mich., 1851-1865; trustee of the Michigan
Agricultural College at East Lansing; moved to Pensacola, Fla., in
1865 and later to Jacksonville, where he established a lumber mill
and also engaged in orange growing; upon the readmission of the
State of Florida to representation was elected as a Republican to
the United States Senate on June 17, 1868, and served until March
3, 1869; declined renomination to accept the presidency of the Iowa
State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, and served from 1869 to
1883, when he resigned; commissioner to inspect foreign colleges of
agriculture 1882-1883; professor of psychology and history in the
Iowa State Agricultural College 1885-1889; was an author and
engaged in educational work; died in Pasadena, Los Angeles County,
Calif., March 14, 1889; interment in the Iowa State College
Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Welch, Adonijah Strong.
Analysis of the English Sentence, Designed for Advanced
Classes. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1855; Welch, Adonijah
Strong. The Teachers’ Psychology: A Treatise on the
Intellectual Faculties, the Order of Their Growth, and the
Corresponding Series of Studies by Which They are Educated. New
York: E.L. Kellogg & Co., 1889.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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