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 Unto Dr. and Mrs. Welch were born the following children: Dr. William Edward, who married Julia Smith and practices his profession at Rainier, Oregon; Robert Sterling, who became a dentist but is now deceased; John C, of Portland, who married Alice Wallace and had three children, Mary A., John W. and Margaret J.; Henry, who wedded Fanny Hendren and lives near Hillsboro, Oregon; Frank P., who is a dentist, married Elizabeth Mock, but is now deceased; Catherine J., the wife of Dr. Cawood, of Portland, and the mother of two children, John R. and Elizabeth; Reuben; Anna Elizabeth, the wife of George H. Tuttle, of Portland; and Benjamin T., at home.

Dr. Welch was laid to rest in Riverview cemetery. His death was indeed a deep blow to his family, to whom he had ever been a devoted and loving husband and father. He was also a loyal member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was one of the organizers of the state board of dental examiners and was appointed one of the four members of that body. He held to high professional standards and to lofty ideals of citizenship and of manhood, and thus won for himself an exalted position in the regard and friendship of those with whom professional and social relations brought him in contact.

Charles Henry Dye's first ancestor in America was a Dane who came with the Dutch founders of New Amsterdam, and Dey street. New York city, is named for the family cow pasture on the island of Manhattan. A grandson, Andrew Dey, or Dye as it came to be spelled, went to Maryland and there married Sarah Minor, own cousin to the wife of George Washington, and Colonel Dye's place was Washington's headquarters, mentioned in Irving's Life of Washington. At the close of the war, in lieu of money, the Revolutionary veterans were paid in Ohio lands, and Andrew Dye moved to Miami county, Ohio, where he lived until 1835. Four years later, in 1839, Henry Dye, father of the subject of our sketch, emigrated from the Ohio home to the newly opened Black Hawk Purchase in Iowa, where, on a farm near Fort Madison, in August, 1856, Charles Henry Dye was bom, next to the youngest of a large family of brothers and sisters.

In 1878 Charles H. Dye graduated from Denmark Academy, Iowa, and entered Oberlin College, Ohio, where he won oratorical honors and graduated with distinction in 1882, and a week later was married to his college classmate, Eva L. Emery. After six years in school work, as principal of a high school and an academy, Mr. Dye entered the law department of the State University of Iowa at Iowa City, graduating in 1889 and winning the prize for the best legal thesis of that year. Settling in Oregon City in 1890, Mr. Dye immediately identified himself with the best interests of the community and has held the offices of deputy district attorney, city attorney and representative in the state legislature, where among other bills he introduced an act known as the union high school law, now in successful operation throughout the state of Oregon.

Mr. Dye was president of the Oregon City Board of Trade for some years, until it was merged into the present Commercial Club of Oregon City, of which he is an active member. In both organizations Mr. Dye has always been identified with the movement for good roads and all other public improvements. Mr. and Mrs. Dye were the originators of the Willamette Valley Chautauqua Association that grew out of a Chautauqua circle at their home in 1894 and has now developed into the largest and most popular educational assembly in Oregon, of which association Mr. Dye has been an executive officer from the beginning.