Bio of WEBB, Dr. Roscoe Clayton (b.1890), 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 593
ROSCOE CLAYTON WEBB, M. D.
Dr. Roscoe Clayton Webb was born in Amiret, Minnesota, March 10, 1890, his
parents being Thomas H. and Orpha (Coyle) Webb, the father a native of
Wisconsin, while the mother was born in this state. Dr. Webb pursued his early
education in the public schools of Tracy and entered the State University, in
which he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1911, later entered the Johns
Hopkins University as a medical student and graduated with the class of 1914.
The same year he went to New York city, where he served as interne and resident
surgeon in the New York Hospital as a member of the staff of Dr. Charles L.
Gibson, professor of surgery in the Cornell Medical School. He remained there
for four years and next went abroad with the American Expeditionary Forces as an
operating surgeon, being attached to Evacuation Hospital No. 8 and serving
through five of the battles in which the Amer­ican army participated on the
western front. He was commissioned a captain in the Medical Corps and rendered
service to the wounded in the battles of Belleau Wood the Champagne, Marne,
Aisne Marne, the St. Mihiel and Argonne-Meuse offensives as head of a "surgical
team."
After being mustered out of the army Dr. Webb came to Minneapolis in Septem­ber,
1919, and is here engaged in the practice of surgery. Dr. Webb is a fellow of
the American College of Surgeons and he also belongs to the Hennepin County and
to the State Medical Societies. He is now associate surgeon at the University
Hospi­tal, is surgeon for the Great Northern Railway and consulting surgeon for
the Northern Pacific Railway. He was licensed to practice by the national board
of med­ical examiners in Washington, D. C., in 1917. He is a member of the Nu
Sigma Nu, a medical fraternity.
On the 24th of December, 1921, Dr. Webb was united in marriage to Miss Edith
Legate of Paterson, New Jersey.