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Jane Meade Welch: Renaissance Woman

By Tom Reigstad - October 15, 2005

She was the talk of the town as society reporter for the Courier, Buffalo's first full-time female journalist, as well as a socialite, humanitarian, lecturer and Twain aficionado.

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