Wellington Branson
Wellington Branson, Nurseryman; P. O. Plattsville, Ohio, a native of Ohio, was born in Miami County on the 26th day of February, 1830, where he passed his minority. November 20, 1852, he married Miss Elizabeth M., daughter of Thomas and Margaret Long, of Miami County. Mr. and Mrs. Branson settled in Miami County, and remained a few years. In 1858 they emigrated to Iowa, where they remained until in 1864, when they returned to Ohio, and in the spring of 1865 they came to Shelby County, and located in Green Township, where they now reside. They have a family of seven children, four sons and three daughters. Mr. Branson gave all of his attention to farming until 1875, when he engaged in nursery business, which now occupies the most of his time.
At this date, 1881, he has about fifteen hundred trees, of all kinds and varieties of fruits, ready for market, about thirty-two thousand trees one year old, which he has grown since the freeze and destruction of fruit trees during the winter of 1880-81, and intends from this year on to make the raising of fruit trees his entire business. His varieties consist of about one hundred and three different kinds of apples, thirty of pears, fifteen of cherries, also a nice variety of plums, peaches, currants, gooseberries, grapes, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, quinces, and, in fact, everything in the nursery line. They employ no agents, but give their commission to the men who buy and plant their trees. They can sell at half the price of travelling agents, furnishing better trees, fresh from the nursery suited to our climate and soil.
Wellington Branson Farm
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History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883
