Bio of WEBBER, Charles C. (b.1859), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical


Vol III, pg 715
CHARLES C. WEBBER
Mr. Webber was born in Rock Island, Illinois, January 25, 1859, a son of
Christopher C. and Ellen S. (Deere) Webber. His father was a representative of
one of the old colonial families of New Hampshire, while the mother was
descended from ancestry established in Vermont in pre-Revolutionary war days.
She was a daughter of John Deere, the plow manufacturer. Christopher C. Webber
was a merchant and manufacturer of Rock Island, Illinois.
Charles C. Webber attended the public schools of his native city and then went
to Lake Forest, Illinois, Academy for a period of three years. With his return
home in 1877 he became identified with farm machinery manufacture and throughout
his life has continued in this line of business. For three years he was in the
employ of Deere & Company at Moline, Illinois, working in the office and
acquainting himself with the sales end of the business as a traveling
representative of the house. In January, 1881, he came to Minneapolis, at which
date Deere & Company established business in this city. He was given charge of
the house at this point and for twelve years business was conducted under the
style of Deere & Company, as at Moline. In 1893 the Minne­apolis interests,
however, were incorporated under the name of the Deere & Webber Company and Mr.
Webber has continuously been at the head of this growing enterprise, whose trade
relations cover territory in the Northwest. He is also the vice president of the
old firm of Deere & Company of Moline, Illinois, and is one of the directors of
the First National Bank of Minneapolis, a director of the Minnesota Loan & Trust
Company and a trustee of the Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank.
In Rochester, New York, Mr. Webber was united in marriage to Miss Mary M. Harris
of that city. Mrs. Webber died in 1921. One son, John Deere Webber, died at the
age of ten years, in 1907. Mr. Webber is a member of the Minneapolis Club and of
the Commercial Club and for almost forty-two years Minneapolis has numbered him
among her most honored and distinguished residents.