Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Webb, D.M. 1872 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     D.M. Webb, Jr., who resides with his father on Mormon mesa, in Plateau

valley, and assists in conducting the extensive ranching and stock business

which they carry on there, was born in Millard county, Utah, in 1872.  His

parents are D.M. and Eliza (Dame) Webb, the former a native of Wisconsin, and

the latter of Utah, where she is now living, making her home in Millard county.

 During his boyhood their son lived in Idaho with his father, who was then a

resident of that state.  When he was thirteen years old they moved to Colorado

and settled near where they now live in Plateau valley.  In 1885 they took up

their residence on their present ranch, and here has since been his home.  He

was educated in the district schools near his home, beginning in those of Idaho

and finishing in those of Mesa county, this state.  He is a young man of

enterprise and progressiveness, with clearness of vision to see and persistent

energy and influence to aid in procuring what the country needs for its proper

and systematic development and has given his best efforts to the wants of the

section in the way of progress and improvement, having been one of the

originators and builders of the Cottonwood lake reservoir for irrigation, in

which he still has an interest, and helped in the promotion of many other works

of public utility.  He has also taken an active interest in public affairs in a

local way, and been wise in counsel and diligent in action in leading opinion

and effort concerning them to the best and most satisfactory expression.  Having

begun his life here with elevated ideals of citizenship, and endeavored to

follow them in practical work, no young man in this part of the county is more

highly esteemed and none has before him a more honorable and promising career. 

He is made of the fiber of American manhood from which the best services and the

most desirable results may be expected, and he is using his faculties and his

opportunities to realize for his portion of the commonwealth its highest good in

a material, educational and political way.  

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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