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Dr. George W. Welborn, formerly a practicing physician of Stewartsville, Ind., was born March 17, 1844, in Evansville, Ind., where he grew to manhood and received his early education. In 1859 he entered the Asbury University, now De Pauw College, where he remained till the beginning of the Civil war. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Sixtieth Indiana infantry, and served three years, receiving his discharge June 30, 1865. For a short time after the war he clerked in a drug store in Evansville, but at the end of six months entered into partnership in Evansville in the boot and shoe business. Two years later he sold out and came to Stewartsville and engaged in farming. October 27, 1867, he married Martha Stinnett, who was born in 1845 in Kentucky. They had four children, all of whom survive him. The doctor began his medical studies while in the army and in 1875 quit farming, took a two years’ course in the Evansville Medical College, graduating in 1877. The parents of the doctor were William W. and Hannah (Walker) Welborn. The father was a physician, who received his medical education in Evansville and died in that city in 1871. The subject of our sketch took a post-graduate course in Philadelphia in 1894. He located in Stewartsville shortly after graduation and practiced there until failing health compelled him to seek relief in a hospital in St. Louis. He died in that city as the result of prostatectomy in 1895.