Carroll Co., AR - Biographies - Webb & Brown

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Webb & Brown. The building and operation of the Eureka Springs Roller 
Mills is due to the energy and enterprise of the firm of Webb & Brown. 
These gentlemen formed a partnership in 1882 for the operation of a 
lumber mill, which they continued for about five years. They then 
built the Roller Mills, which were completed and started early in 
April, 1888. The building has three stories, contains a full line of 
Barnard & Leas' mill machinery (Moline, Ill.), and has a capacity of 
fifty barrels per day. Richard Webb, the senior member of the firm, 
was born in 1851 in Illinois, and is of the family of Ellis and 
Elizabeth (Spirloch) Webb. The father was reared in Tennessee, and the 
mother in Alabama. They were probably married in Tennessee, and when 
young went to Illinois, and about 1853 removed to Missouri, where the 
father died and the mother is still living. The father was a farmer, 
and Richard was reared on a farm. He remained with his parents until 
the age of twenty-two years, when he began dealing in cattle and hogs, 
in connection with farming, and continued until 1881, when he removed 
to Eureka Springs, in quest of relief from ill health in his family, 
and has remained here ever since. In 1873 he was married to Elizabeth 
Cown, and to them have been born six children, namely: Annie E., 
Harvey, Josiah, Bazell, Elvina and Rosella. Both Mr. Webb and wife are 
members of the Christian Church.