Rev. A. D. Welty Dies At 94; Founded Lima Rescue Home
The Rev. Adam David Welty, 94, of 329 N. Central Ave., founder of the Lima Rescue Home, died at 9:35 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
The Rev. Mr. Welty had been in the hospital four days as a medical patient. One of 17 children of Frederick and Katherine Steiner Welty, the Rev. Mr. Welty was born in a log cabin near Bluffton July 3, 1860.
Formerly a schoolteacher, he devoted more than 55 years of his life to the physical and spiritual rehabilitation of the destitute.
He attended Putnam County schools, Ohio Northern University, Ada, and Tri-State College, Angola, Ind. For 15 years he taught in Putnam and Wayne county schools and in 1892 assisted in orphanage work at Berne, Ind.
He entered the grocery business in Bluffton in 1895 and in 1899, after receiving the call to the ministry, began mission work in south Lima.
He started out as pastor of what is now the First Missionary Church, and at that time, was called the First Mission. It was located on the present site of the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton plant in the vicinity of what was then known as "Solarville."
In 1900 he was ordained in the Missionary Church and six years later organized the Lima Rescue Home in a building in the 200 block of E. North St.
The original contribution, the Rev. Mr. Welty once recalled, was 50 cents, used to buy soap and a broom to clean up the building. When the building became too small, the Rev. Mr. Welty began to plan for a new buidling and in 1914 the Lima Rescue Home was incorporated as a non-profit organization for the two-fold purpose of caring for the down and out and men released from penal institutions, and receiving and dispensing gifts of food and clothing for the needy.
In 1914, construction on the present $100,000 building at the corner of E. Wayne St. and N. Central Ave. was begun, but World War I delayed the work. However, by August 1920, the building was completed and the Welty family moved in. The last payment of the mortgage was made Jan. 20, 1944.
The Rev. Mr. Welty was an honorary life member of the International Union of Gospel Missions; a charter member and honorary elder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church; honorary president of the World Radio Missionary Fellowship, and superintendent and trustee emeritus of the Lima Rescue Home.
Surviving are five sons, S. Roy, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Fred A., Greensburg, Pa.; Paul D., at home; Dr. Kenneth A., a physician at Vandalia; and the Rev. James C., 329 N. Central Ave., now superintendent of the home, three daughters, Mrs. Ruth Churchill, 540 McPheron Ave., Mrs. Katherine Jones, Talcottville, Conn., Mrs. Marcella Harman, 1712 Oakland Pkwy.; five brothers, Ben F., 1830 Hillcrest Drive; Noah J., Reno, Nev.; Dr. Emil, a physician in Spokane, Wash.; Jacob C., Phoenix, Ariz., and Albert B., Evanston, Ill.; two sisters, Mrs. D. C. Steiner, Pandora and Mrs. Sara W. Lehman, 1830 Hillcrest Drive; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
His wife, the late Emma Klay Welty, died March 23, 1952.
The body will remain in the Chiles & Son Funeral Home until 1 p.m. Monday, then will be removed to the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church for services at 2 p.m. The Rev. S. F. Porter will officiate and burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.
(published in The Lima News, Friday, February 4, 1955, page 1)
The Rev. Adam David Welty, 94, of 329 N. Central Ave., founder of the Lima Rescue Home, died at 9:35 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
The Rev. Mr. Welty had been in the hospital four days as a medical patient. One of 17 children of Frederick and Katherine Steiner Welty, the Rev. Mr. Welty was born in a log cabin near Bluffton July 3, 1860.
Formerly a schoolteacher, he devoted more than 55 years of his life to the physical and spiritual rehabilitation of the destitute.
He attended Putnam County schools, Ohio Northern University, Ada, and Tri-State College, Angola, Ind. For 15 years he taught in Putnam and Wayne county schools and in 1892 assisted in orphanage work at Berne, Ind.
He entered the grocery business in Bluffton in 1895 and in 1899, after receiving the call to the ministry, began mission work in south Lima.
He started out as pastor of what is now the First Missionary Church, and at that time, was called the First Mission. It was located on the present site of the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton plant in the vicinity of what was then known as "Solarville."
In 1900 he was ordained in the Missionary Church and six years later organized the Lima Rescue Home in a building in the 200 block of E. North St.
The original contribution, the Rev. Mr. Welty once recalled, was 50 cents, used to buy soap and a broom to clean up the building. When the building became too small, the Rev. Mr. Welty began to plan for a new buidling and in 1914 the Lima Rescue Home was incorporated as a non-profit organization for the two-fold purpose of caring for the down and out and men released from penal institutions, and receiving and dispensing gifts of food and clothing for the needy.
In 1914, construction on the present $100,000 building at the corner of E. Wayne St. and N. Central Ave. was begun, but World War I delayed the work. However, by August 1920, the building was completed and the Welty family moved in. The last payment of the mortgage was made Jan. 20, 1944.
The Rev. Mr. Welty was an honorary life member of the International Union of Gospel Missions; a charter member and honorary elder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church; honorary president of the World Radio Missionary Fellowship, and superintendent and trustee emeritus of the Lima Rescue Home.
Surviving are five sons, S. Roy, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Fred A., Greensburg, Pa.; Paul D., at home; Dr. Kenneth A., a physician at Vandalia; and the Rev. James C., 329 N. Central Ave., now superintendent of the home, three daughters, Mrs. Ruth Churchill, 540 McPheron Ave., Mrs. Katherine Jones, Talcottville, Conn., Mrs. Marcella Harman, 1712 Oakland Pkwy.; five brothers, Ben F., 1830 Hillcrest Drive; Noah J., Reno, Nev.; Dr. Emil, a physician in Spokane, Wash.; Jacob C., Phoenix, Ariz., and Albert B., Evanston, Ill.; two sisters, Mrs. D. C. Steiner, Pandora and Mrs. Sara W. Lehman, 1830 Hillcrest Drive; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
His wife, the late Emma Klay Welty, died March 23, 1952.
The body will remain in the Chiles & Son Funeral Home until 1 p.m. Monday, then will be removed to the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church for services at 2 p.m. The Rev. S. F. Porter will officiate and burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.
(published in The Lima News, Friday, February 4, 1955, page 1)
Rev. A. D. Welty Dies At 94; Founded Lima Rescue Home
The Rev. Adam David Welty, 94, of 329 N. Central Ave., founder of the Lima Rescue Home, died at 9:35 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
The Rev. Mr. Welty had been in the hospital four days as a medical patient. One of 17 children of Frederick and Katherine Steiner Welty, the Rev. Mr. Welty was born in a log cabin near Bluffton July 3, 1860.
Formerly a schoolteacher, he devoted more than 55 years of his life to the physical and spiritual rehabilitation of the destitute.
He attended Putnam County schools, Ohio Northern University, Ada, and Tri-State College, Angola, Ind. For 15 years he taught in Putnam and Wayne county schools and in 1892 assisted in orphanage work at Berne, Ind.
He entered the grocery business in Bluffton in 1895 and in 1899, after receiving the call to the ministry, began mission work in south Lima.
He started out as pastor of what is now the First Missionary Church, and at that time, was called the First Mission. It was located on the present site of the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton plant in the vicinity of what was then known as "Solarville."
In 1900 he was ordained in the Missionary Church and six years later organized the Lima Rescue Home in a building in the 200 block of E. North St.
The original contribution, the Rev. Mr. Welty once recalled, was 50 cents, used to buy soap and a broom to clean up the building. When the building became too small, the Rev. Mr. Welty began to plan for a new buidling and in 1914 the Lima Rescue Home was incorporated as a non-profit organization for the two-fold purpose of caring for the down and out and men released from penal institutions, and receiving and dispensing gifts of food and clothing for the needy.
In 1914, construction on the present $100,000 building at the corner of E. Wayne St. and N. Central Ave. was begun, but World War I delayed the work. However, by August 1920, the building was completed and the Welty family moved in. The last payment of the mortgage was made Jan. 20, 1944.
The Rev. Mr. Welty was an honorary life member of the International Union of Gospel Missions; a charter member and honorary elder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church; honorary president of the World Radio Missionary Fellowship, and superintendent and trustee emeritus of the Lima Rescue Home.
Surviving are five sons, S. Roy, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Fred A., Greensburg, Pa.; Paul D., at home; Dr. Kenneth A., a physician at Vandalia; and the Rev. James C., 329 N. Central Ave., now superintendent of the home, three daughters, Mrs. Ruth Churchill, 540 McPheron Ave., Mrs. Katherine Jones, Talcottville, Conn., Mrs. Marcella Harman, 1712 Oakland Pkwy.; five brothers, Ben F., 1830 Hillcrest Drive; Noah J., Reno, Nev.; Dr. Emil, a physician in Spokane, Wash.; Jacob C., Phoenix, Ariz., and Albert B., Evanston, Ill.; two sisters, Mrs. D. C. Steiner, Pandora and Mrs. Sara W. Lehman, 1830 Hillcrest Drive; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
His wife, the late Emma Klay Welty, died March 23, 1952.
The body will remain in the Chiles & Son Funeral Home until 1 p.m. Monday, then will be removed to the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church for services at 2 p.m. The Rev. S. F. Porter will officiate and burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.
(published in The Lima News, Friday, February 4, 1955, page 1)
The Rev. Adam David Welty, 94, of 329 N. Central Ave., founder of the Lima Rescue Home, died at 9:35 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
The Rev. Mr. Welty had been in the hospital four days as a medical patient. One of 17 children of Frederick and Katherine Steiner Welty, the Rev. Mr. Welty was born in a log cabin near Bluffton July 3, 1860.
Formerly a schoolteacher, he devoted more than 55 years of his life to the physical and spiritual rehabilitation of the destitute.
He attended Putnam County schools, Ohio Northern University, Ada, and Tri-State College, Angola, Ind. For 15 years he taught in Putnam and Wayne county schools and in 1892 assisted in orphanage work at Berne, Ind.
He entered the grocery business in Bluffton in 1895 and in 1899, after receiving the call to the ministry, began mission work in south Lima.
He started out as pastor of what is now the First Missionary Church, and at that time, was called the First Mission. It was located on the present site of the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton plant in the vicinity of what was then known as "Solarville."
In 1900 he was ordained in the Missionary Church and six years later organized the Lima Rescue Home in a building in the 200 block of E. North St.
The original contribution, the Rev. Mr. Welty once recalled, was 50 cents, used to buy soap and a broom to clean up the building. When the building became too small, the Rev. Mr. Welty began to plan for a new buidling and in 1914 the Lima Rescue Home was incorporated as a non-profit organization for the two-fold purpose of caring for the down and out and men released from penal institutions, and receiving and dispensing gifts of food and clothing for the needy.
In 1914, construction on the present $100,000 building at the corner of E. Wayne St. and N. Central Ave. was begun, but World War I delayed the work. However, by August 1920, the building was completed and the Welty family moved in. The last payment of the mortgage was made Jan. 20, 1944.
The Rev. Mr. Welty was an honorary life member of the International Union of Gospel Missions; a charter member and honorary elder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church; honorary president of the World Radio Missionary Fellowship, and superintendent and trustee emeritus of the Lima Rescue Home.
Surviving are five sons, S. Roy, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Fred A., Greensburg, Pa.; Paul D., at home; Dr. Kenneth A., a physician at Vandalia; and the Rev. James C., 329 N. Central Ave., now superintendent of the home, three daughters, Mrs. Ruth Churchill, 540 McPheron Ave., Mrs. Katherine Jones, Talcottville, Conn., Mrs. Marcella Harman, 1712 Oakland Pkwy.; five brothers, Ben F., 1830 Hillcrest Drive; Noah J., Reno, Nev.; Dr. Emil, a physician in Spokane, Wash.; Jacob C., Phoenix, Ariz., and Albert B., Evanston, Ill.; two sisters, Mrs. D. C. Steiner, Pandora and Mrs. Sara W. Lehman, 1830 Hillcrest Drive; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
His wife, the late Emma Klay Welty, died March 23, 1952.
The body will remain in the Chiles & Son Funeral Home until 1 p.m. Monday, then will be removed to the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church for services at 2 p.m. The Rev. S. F. Porter will officiate and burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.
(published in The Lima News, Friday, February 4, 1955, page 1)
Family Members
Siblings
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Christina Welty Neuenschwander
1858–1888
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William F Welty
1859–1941
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Andrew J Welty
1862–1952
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Caroline Welty Steiner
1862–1893
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Mary Ann Welty Steiner
1863–1908
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Barbara Welty Steiner
1866–1955
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Lavina W Welty Steiner
1869–1934
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Benjamin Franklin Welty
1870–1962
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Noah J. Welty
1871–1959
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Dr. Emil M. Welty
1873–1971
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Albert Benjamin Welty Sr
1876–1977
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