Biography of Henry McC Webb, Greene Co, AR

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        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

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Dr. Henry McC. Webb. The name of Webb is one of the most influential in Greene
County, Ark., and Dr. Webb, among its most talented physicians, has obtained a
reputation placing him in the front rank of the medical fraternity. He was born in
Madison County, Tenn., in 1851, being a son of Theodric and Elizabeth (Watson) Webb,
who were born, married and resided in South Carolina, and about 1842 settled on a
farm in Madison County, Tenn., where he is now living at the age of seventy-six
years. His wife died in 1861. They were members of the Presbyterian Church, and the
father is now a Democrat in his political views, a Royal Arch Mason, and an
enthusiastic patron of schools, churches, etc. Dr. Henry McC. Webb is next to the
youngest of the four surviving members of their family of eight children. After
attending the common schools and the High School near Greeneville, he entered the
University of Alabama in 1872, from which institution he was graduated in July of the
following year. He then returned to Lexington, Tenn., and being well fitted by nature
for the profession of medicine soon entered upon his medical studies under Dr. H. W.
Wassen, but gave this up after a short time and entered the law school at Lebanon,
Tenn., graduating in June, 1874, later practicing this profession for five years in
Lexington. In the fall of 1879 he entered Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn.,
attending during that year and 1880, and then resumed his practice in Lexington,
continuing until 1886, when he returned to college and graduated from the medical
department in the spring of 1886. Since that time he has resided in Gainesville,
Ark., where he has become a leading practitioner, although a resident of the county
only a few years. He is becoming well known, but the heavy calls for his services at
home prevent him from going much abroad. In 1878 he was married to Miss Addie E.
Smith, who was born in Henderson County, Tenn., and is the mother of three children:
Cossy T., Ella Louisa and Robert B. Mrs. Webb is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South.