Bio: Capt. Junius Y. Webb, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source:Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000



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===Capt. Junius Y. Webb, merchant, Minden, La.  The business position 
occupied by Capt. Webb in this community is such, that in depicting 
the commercial interests of Minden it would be manifestly impossible 
to omit mention of an institution that adds so materially to the 
stability and representative enterprise of that city.  He is one 
of the oldest merchants and most public-spirited men in Webster 
Parish.  The Captain was born in Marengo County, Ala., on July 22, 
1832, and is a son of Samuel S. and Ann M. (Dickens) Webb, both 
natives of North Carolina.  There he made his home until 1862, when 
he came to Louisiana, and died in what is now Webster Parish in 1863.  
His wife died in Mississippi while on a visit to a daughter in 1860.  
They were the parents of six sons and two daughters, all of whom grew 
to mature years and became heads of families.  All the brothers, with 
the exception of our subject, were physicians and very successful 
practitioners, being men of superior education.  Capt. J. Y. Webb 
passed his boyhood and youth in Alabama, secured a good education in 
the high schools of his State, and when quite a young man, and before 
arriving at his majority, he engaged in the mercantile business at 
Sumterville.  On October, 1854, while a resident of Alabama, he was 
married to Miss Anna E. Grigsby, a native of the same State and 
daughter of Dr. Samuel Grigsby.  After his marriage Capt. Webb, 
continued merchandising in Alabama up to 1855, when he closed out 
and moved to Louisiana, where he began tilling the soil in Webster 
Parish.  In 1858 he located in Minden, embarked in mercantile pursuits 
again, and this carried on up to the breaking out of the war.  In 1862 
he enlisted in an independent cavalry company, the Minden Rangers, 
composed of some of the best citizens of Minden, a number of whom 
has since become men of more than local renown.  This company served 
first as Gen. Frank Armstrong's escort, after that with Gen. W. H. 
Jackson.  At the reorganization of the company in 1863 Mr. Webb was 
elected captain, serving in that capacity until the close of the war.  
During the latter part of the service he was on the staff of Gen. 
Scott, as inspector.  He is considered one of the most reliable
business men of Webster parish.  He owns quite a tract of land in 
this parish, which is very rich with iron ore, some of which the 
Captain had analyzed, and which showed fifty-two per cent of iron 
of superior quality.  It is said to be a quality for the manufacture 
of steel.  Capt. Webb is anxious to have this mineral developed, but 
being several miles from the railroad he has not succeeded in getting 
the proper parties to take hold with him in its development.  To 
Capt. And Mrs. Webb have been born nine children: Ida, Samuel G. 
(a merchant in Minden), Sally, Junius, Mildred Watson (wife of 
Standley Watson), John, Eva, Rhydon and Stephen.  Capt. Webb and 
family, with the exception of the youngest child, are members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church.