Civil War veteran

William D. Welch claimed to be 100 years old when this photo was made by the Harbaugh Studio in 1938. Wounded at Antietam, he recovered and returned to fight at Gettysburg and several other major battles. He lived for many years on a houseboat on the Monongahela River at Dunlevy and claimed to have spent 90 years along that river, the Ohio and the Mississippi and boasted that he knew "every lock, dam, shoal and snag between Pittsburgh and New Orleans."

He died in Cincinnati on Dec. 17, 1945, at age 113, according to his calculations.