John Welsh Dulles

John Welsh Dulles (November 4, 1823 – April 13, 1887) was an American Presbyterian minister and author. He was the grandfather of John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles.

Early life Dulles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 4, 1823. He was the son of Joseph Heatly Dulles and Margaret ( Welsh) Dulles. He graduated from Yale College in 1844. After pursuing the study of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania in 1844 and 1845, he entered the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, in January 1846, and completed the course there in 1848.

Career On October 2, 1848, he was ordained by the Fourth Presbytery of Philadelphia, and eight days later sailed from Boston to Madras, South India, as a missionary of the American Board of Foreign Missions. He labored among the Hindus until compelled by loss of voice to return to America, reaching Boston in March 1853.

Personal life On September 20, 1848, he married Harriet Lathrop Winslow (1829–1861) in New York City. She was a daughter of the Rev. Miron Winslow, of Madras, and Harriet Wadsworth (née Lathrop) Winslow. Before her death on September 6, 1861, they were the parents of at least six sons and one daughter, including: Perit Dulles (1852–1883), who married Julia Mallet Prevost, a daughter of Grayson Mallet-Prevost. Joseph Heatly Dulles III (1853–1937), a minister who reorganized and supervised the Library of the Princeton Theological Seminary. After her death in 1907, he married Helen Rollins in 1910.

On February 2, 1865, he married Mary Nataline Baynard (1829–1876), of Philadelphia. Together, they were the parents of one daughter and one son:

Nataline Baynard Dulles (1865–1895) Heatly Courtonne Dulles (1867–1956), chairman of the board of the investment banking firm Janney, Dulles & Co.; he married Lillian Hoyt Ewing. His wife died in 1876. Of his six sons who survived him, three were graduates of Princeton College, and two were ministers.