Claude E. Welch

(1906-1996) born in Stanton, Stanton County, lived in Crete. Physician, surgeon, author, specialist in abdominal surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, was one of six physicians invited to Rome in 1981 about the treatment of Pope John Paul II after being wounded by an assassin's bullet, internationally renowned for writing authoritative manuals. Consult obituary in Journal of American Medical Association, Vol 276 (August 4, 1996) 508f and New York Times obituary, March 12, 1996, p. B-6 and his autobiography A Twentieth Century Surgeon: My Life in the Massachusetts General Hospital (Watson Publishing International, 1992).

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