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Booth & Hayden's plant, and served in
this capacity for thirteen years. Through-
out this period he was a leading figure in
the manufacturing circles of Waterbury,
a man whose judgment and ability were
eagerly sought and highly respected. Mr.
Welton was one of the founders of the
Plume & Atwood Manufacturing Com-
pany, and a member of its board of direc-
tors until his death. He was also a stockholder
in the Oakville Pin Company.
George Wales Welton stands out predominantly
from the ranks of those men
who directed the first industrial and commercial
growth of the city of Waterbury,
and laid the foundation for its present
commanding position in the manufacturing
life of New England. He was a man
of long vision, cognizant of the resources
of his native city, and ambitious for its
development. Every public movement for
the advancement of civic interests had his
interested support. He remained aloof
from politics, however.
On September ii, 1837, Mr. Welton
married (first) in Waterbury, Harriet Minor,
daughter of Archibald Minor, of Wolcott,
Connecticut. Child : Harriet Minor,
who became the wife of Leverett D.
Kinea, of Thomaston, Connecticut.
On December 22, 1840, Mr. Welton
married (second) Mary Graham, who was
born in Hartford, Connecticut, daughter
of Cyrus Graham (see Graham III). Chil-
dern : i. Mary Elizabeth, became the wife
of George E. Bissell, the noted sculptor
; they have five children : i. George
Welton, dean of the Michigan State Col-
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lege at Lansing, ii. Isabella Graham, at
home. iii. Harry Johnson, iv. Joseph
Welton, died in childhood, v. Percy R.,
United States Army. 2. Emily J., mentioned
below. 3. Ellen Caroline, who mar-
ried James E. Coer, of Waterbury. 4.
George Richard, now deceased ; married
Nellie C. Webster, of Thomaston ; their
daughter, Gertrude Webster Welton, is a
graduate of St. Margaret's School, of
Wellesley College, and the medical department
of the University of Michigan.
Miss Welton is now a well known physi-
cian of New York City, and is in charge
of the X-ray department of the Polyclinic
Hospital, of New York. 5. Child, who
died in infancy.
(VII) Emily J. Welton, daughter of
George Wales and Mary (Graham) Wel-
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ton, was born in Waterbury, Connecti-
cut, August 27, 1845. She married, Octo-
ber 2, 1884, Edward Laurens Frisbie, of
Waterbury (see Frisbie VI).
(The Graham Line).
Arms—Quarterly, ist and 4th or, on a chief
sable three escallops of the first, for Graham ; and
and 3rd argent, three roses gules, barbed and
seeded proper, for the title of Montrose.
Crest^A falcon proper, beaked and armed or,
killing a stork argent, beaked and membered gules.
Motto—N'oublies. (Do not forget.)
Few families, says Sir Walter Scott, can
boast of greater historic renown than that
of Graham. Great obscurity and numerous
fables invest the origin of the name,
yet even Sir Robert Douglas repeats the
old story that the Grahams are descended
from the famous warrior, Robert Graham,
who with his men breached the Roman
wall in 420 and won it the name of
Graham's Dyke in the time of Fergus II.
(Graham's Dyke is still the local name for
the Roman fortified frontier, consisting of
rampart, forts and road, which ran across
the narrow isthmus of Scotland from the
Firth of Clyde and formed the northern
boundary of Roman Britain.) The first
authentic appearance of the name in Scottish
history occurs circa 1143-47, when
William of Graham was one of the wit-
nesses of David I to the Holyrood Char-
ter. In this entry the name is spelled