HOWARD CO., IA: BIOGRAPHY: J. F. Webster
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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J. F. WEBSTER, ESQ., was born in Richland County, Ohio, November 9, 1818, 
whither his parents had removed from Cayuga County, New York, and settled ten miles 
west of Mansfield, when the country was a wilderness. 
     In 1834 they removed to Will County, Illinois, near Joliet, where they resided two 
years, and then went to LaPorte County, Indiana, where Mr. Webster completed his 
education in thirty-two days in a log school-house, in 1837.  He has never attended 
school a single day in any other than a log cabin.  He was married in 1847 to Miss Eliza 
J. Carlisle, and continued to live in La Porte County until April, 1857, when he removed 
with his family to Howard County, Iowa.  He was elected Treasurer of Howard County in 
1865, serving two years.
     In 1867 he removed to Cresco, where he now resides, and of which town he is the 
present mayor, having been elected to that office in 1874, and re-elected in 1875. 
     He is the proprietor of the Webster House.
     Mr. Webster has a heart filled with sympathy for his fellow men, and is always ready 
to do his utmost to relieve the distressed and unfortunate wherever met.