Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Webber, Waitstill 1779 - 1869
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   WAITSTILL WEBBER was born in Harpswell 17 Sept. 1779. At the age of thirteen
and a half he was sent to live with a Mr. Corey who kept a grocery store in
Harpswell near where Mrs. Eleanor Merriman now lives. Here he worked till he was
sixteen. Not liking to sell rum he left the store and learned the carpenter's
trade with John Curtis, remaining with him till twenty-one years of age. In 1803
he bought one half of lot No. 12 in Durham for $650. The new house which he
built in 1811 was destroyed by fire in 1831. He at once built the large two
story house where his son, Charles W. Webber resides. In 1814 he joined the
Society of Friends at South Durham, and was an honored member till his death, 15
Jan. 1869. In 1828-9 he was one of the Selectmen. He preferred the walks of
private life and worked as a carpenter and farmer nearly up to the hour of his
death. He was a good citizen and a sympathetic helper of his fellowmen. The text
used at his funeral was Psalms xxxvii 137.

Additional Comments:

Part of Chapter IX.
A FEW OUT OF MANY

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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