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Submitted by Cheryl VanWormer 

			ANDREW J. AND MARY C. (ABBEY) WEBBER

	Andrew J. Webber, son of andrew W. and Sophia (Wilkins) Webber, was born in Steuben Co., 
N. Y., Jan. 7, 1831, and was the youngest son in a family of seven sons and five daughters.
	His father was engaged in numerous branches of business, being a farmer, merchant, etc.  
He is now deceased.  After the death of his father, A. J. Webber had of necessity to provide for 
himself.  He received a common-school education.  In the fall of 1852, in company with his 
brother, George W. Webber, he removed to Michigan.  Was engaged in lumbering on the west shore 
of Michigan for four years.  for the next ten years he was engaged in farming and the mercantile 
business.  In the year 1866 he took charge of the lumber business of Messrs. Hall & Webber, in 
Mecosta Co., Mich., on the Little Muskegon River.  After three years' time he purchased the 
interest of Mr. Frederick Hall, and since that time has continued the business under the 
firm-name of Webber Brothers.  Oct. 20, 1855, he married Miss Mary C. Abbey, of Reading, Schuyler
 Co., N. Y., and to them have been born five children,--four sons and a daughter.  Mr. Webber now 
owns a fine farm of four hundred and sixty acres, adjoining the city of Ionia, where he is 
largely interested in fruit-culture, as well as production of wheat.  He makes a specialty of 
American merino sheep, and has at present a flock of seven hundred.  His house, built of the 
Ionia sandstone, is said to be finest farm-house in the State of Michigan.  He is a stalwart 
Republican politically, but has never engaged in politics or cared to hold office.  His fine 
fortune has been accumulated through the channels of legitimate business,--farming and lumbering.
	He has been one of the directors of the Second National Bank of Ionia since its 
organization.  Was chosen as president of the Ionia County Agricultural Society at its last 
meeting.  He is a gentleman of large resources, possessing that push and vim necessary to certain
success in his various affairs, and has a very large circle of friends.  The poor and needy 
remember with gratitude many acts of kindness from him.  He is liberal to all in need, and 
strictly one of nature's noblemen.



This biography is taken from "HISTORY OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, MICHIGAN" 
by John S. Schenck. Philadelphia:  D. W. Ensign & Co., 1881. Pages 163.