Dr. Curtis Wade Welch

1875 - 1945  (70 years)

• Name	Curtis Wade Welch
  Prefix	Dr.
  Born	6 Oct 1875	Connecticut, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	14 Dec 1945	, Santa Barbara Co, California, USA
  Person ID	I16155	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2009

  
  

  Father	Dwight M. Welch,   b. Abt 1831, Connecticut, USA
  Mother	Mary Smith,   b. Abt 1833, Connecticut, USA
  Family ID	F6896	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lula Belle James,   b. 8 Nov 1873, Indiana, USA ,   d. 23 Feb 1963, , Santa Barbara Co, California, USA  (Age 89 years)
  Married	14 Sep 1899	Phoenix, Maricopa Co, Arizona, USA
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2009
  Family ID	F2850	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  If you have corrections and/or updated information on this person please contact Roz Edson at MrsEdson@gmail.com [[The following census information was compiled and contributed by Joyce S. Calif. Death Records Transcribed as Curtis Wilch 1900 Census: Los Angeles Ward 4, Los Angeles Co, California Curtis Welch, Oct 1874, age 25, m ? mos, bp CT, f's bp CT, m's bp MA, Physician Lula Welch, wife, Nov 1873, age 26, 0 births, bp IN, f's bp IN, m's bp KY Inez, James, sis-in-law, Sept 1881, age 18, bp IN, f's bp IN, m's bp KY, has occ- too faded to read 1910 Census: Council, 2-Division, Alaska Curtis W. Welch, Oct 1875, age 34, m 19 yrs, bp CT, p's bp CT, Physician Lula Welch, wife, Nov 1873, age 36, 0 births, bp KY, p's bp KY 1920 Census: Cape Nome, Second Judicial District, Alaska Curtis Welch, age 44, bp CT, f's bp CT, m's bp MA, Physician- Surgeon Lulu James Welch, wife, age 44, bp Ky, p's bp KY No others listed in household. 1930 Census: Oakland, Alameda Co, California Dr. Curtis Welch, age 54, m at 24, bp CT, p's bp CT, Physician- industrial insurance? Lula J. Welch, wife, age 55, m at 21, bp IN, p's bp KY No others listed in household. For info on Curtis Welch see> http://serumrun.org/History.htm http://www.iditarod.com/geninfo/serumrun.php http://www.dogsled.com/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?action=display&board=Iditarod_Buzz&num=1044683390&start=0.......... "Re: The 1925 serum run, by Dude Dog < Reply #1 on: February 8th, 2003, 3:17am > The Serum Run was not tecnically a race - it was a relay of teams to get medicine to Nome:While the race to Nome began when Dr. Curtis Welch in Nome diagnosed a Diphtheria outbreak. With very little serum in Nome a call for help was sent out. While serum was being rushed north the logistics of how to transport it Nome where settled. It was decided that the fastest way to get the serum to Nome was to dog sled it over 600 miles from Nenana. Anxiously waiting in Nome, Dr. Welch had administered all of the diphtheria serum that he had. The disease had already caused five deaths. There were another twenty-two confirmed cases and another eighty probable ones. Time was of the essence. The serum arrived in Nome at 5:40 AM on February 2nd, barely a week after leaving Anchorage and 127 hours after departing Nenana. The conditions were often brutal with blinding snowstorms and temperatures dropping as low as -64F. Although when the serum arrived in Nome it was frozen solid, once thawed it proved to still be vital. What the dog drivers had been asked to achieve in fifteen days, they accomplished in five days, seven and one-half hours. There were no more deaths and the quarantine was lifted within nineteen days"