Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Webster, Herbert F. February 7, 1856 - 
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HERBERT F. WEBSTER, farmer and lumberman, section 21, Big Prairie Township, 
was born Feb. 7, 1856, in 

Newaygo County, and is the son of William Rila and Phebe Ann (Moore) Webster.  
(see sketch)

Mr. Webster was reard to manhood in his native county and has chiefly followed 
the callings of farmer and 

lumberman; he has also been engaged as an estimator of pine and pine lands and 
likewise as a "scaler."  He 

is the owner of 80 acres of unimproved land on section 15, 80 acres on section 
21 and 40 acres on section 

16, of Big Prairie Township.

He was married April 27, 1879, in the village of Newaygo, to Kittie C. Reed, 
Rev. J.H. Hicks officiating.  

Mrs. Webster was born in Elk River Township, Sanilac Co., Mich., Aug. 11, 
1859, and is a daughter of Elias 

S. and Elizabeth (Gaffney) Reed, both of whom are natives of Zora, Dominion of 
Canada, where the one was 

born in 1832 and the other in 1838.

To Mr. and Mrs. Webster three children have been born, namely:  Freddie H., 
the eldest born, is deceased; 

Bertha Pearl was born May 22, 1881.  An infant son, George, was born Dec. 6, 
1883.  Mr. Webster is an 

adherent of the National Greenback Labor party, and in religious views adopts 
the tenets of the Wesleyan 

Methodist Church.

Mr. Webster, though a youg man, has a very creitable record as a Nimrod.  In 
the course of two weeks in 

1873 he captured 14 deer and two bears, and the aggregate product of his skill 
with his rifle is about 50 

deer and three bears. One of the experiences opf which he retains a vital 
remembrance was a long season 

continuint from September, 1870, to April, 1871, in the woods on the Pentwater 
River.  He is of social, 

genial temperament, kind tothe poor and sympathetic with the suffering, aiding 
such with all the 

generosity of his nature.  He is specially fond of music and an expert 
violinist.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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