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Miss Welch has been one of the most forceful and useful women in DeWitt County. Through her own efforts mainly, she came to be an efficient teacher in the public schools. From 1873 she served as county superintendent of schools for a period of seventeen years at a time when most men did not accord the right of women to this office. Her intelligent faith and faithful work were invaluable to the Clinton Church. She bravely stood by it and fostered it when it was little, poor and despised by the self-righteous. Of late years she has been the superintendent of the Rest-room in Clinton.