Background
Welty, Elmer Elias was born on September 3, 1906 in Pandora. Son of Elias and Elizabeth (Amstutz) Welty.
Welty, Elmer Elias was born on September 3, 1906 in Pandora. Son of Elias and Elizabeth (Amstutz) Welty.
Graduate Asiatic Affairs Course, Yale University. Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Ohio Northern University.
Assistant City Solicitor, Lima, Ohio, 1929-1933. Prosecuting Attorney, Logan County, Ohio, 1941-1946. Assistant Director, Foreign Property Division, CPC, GHQ-SCAP, 1946-1949.
With Ohio National Guard, 1926—1933. Commissioned Second lieutenant United States Army, 1933. Advanced through grades to colonel, 1949.
Retired, 1978; served China, 1943—1945. Partner Welty, Shimeall and Kasari International, Tokyo, 1949—1978. Of counsel Pompano Beach, Florida, 1978—1987, St. Augustine, since 1987.
Member of American Bar Association, American ClOhio, Mil Order World Wars, Retired Officers Association, Res Officers Association, American Legion, American Society International Law, Dai Ichi Bar Association, Ohio Bar Association, Explorers (New York City), Bohemian (San Francisco).
Married Dorothy Tolford, June 1929. 1 child Nancy Lee; Married Gertrude Kintzer, June 1936 (divorced 1946). Children: Linda Ann, Rebecca Lou, Richard Edward.
Married Lyla Rogers, February 23, 1946.