Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Webber, Robert 1804 - 1885
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

ROBERT WEBBER.

   Dr. Robert Webber was born at South Moulton, Devonshire county, England,
April 2, 1804, and when fourteen years old, with his father, John Webber, came
to America in 1818, and settled in Pennsylvania. He was graduated from the
Washington Medical College, Baltimore, in 1832. He there married Eliza Bowen,
and in 1835 came to Carroll county, Indiana, locating in Delphi. He brought a
printing press with him and began the publication of the Western Banner, which
was the first newspaper published in the county. He practiced his profession for
over forty years. He was a highly educated man. His wife died after twenty years
of married life. In February, 1855 he was married, secondly, to Nancy Bowen, in
Ohio. He died on April 18, 1885, leaving a wife, three daughters and three sons.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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