Bio of WEBB, Robert Williams (b.1869), 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 560-561
ROBERT WILLIAMS WEBB
A forceful figure in the financial circles of Minneapolis is Robert Williams
Webb, whose career has been marked by a steady progression that indicates a
mastery over self and over those things which go to make up life's contacts and
experiences. He is now the president of the Minneapolis Trust Company and as
such wields a wide influence in financial circles. He came to this city from
Indiana, in which state his birth occurred, the place of his nativity being
Richmond and his natal day August 11, 1869. His parents were Benjamin and Sarah
T. (Williams) Webb, the former a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and the latter
of Richmond, Indiana. In the year 1885 the father brought his family to
Minnesota and was engaged in the grain trade in Minneapolis until 1893, when he
became associated with the Minneapolis Trust Company as assistant secretary and
treasurer, being elected also one of the directors of the company. He was
associated with this corporation to the time of his death, which occurred in
May, 1917. His religious faith was that of the Quakers, or Society of Friends,
and he served as clerk of the Minneapolis monthly meeting for a number of years.
He was also president of the Minneapolis Athenaeum and he manifested a keen and
helpful interest in many projects that related to the public welfare. For
several years he survived his wife, who died about 1910.
Their son, Robert Williams Webb, was educated in a preparatory school-Earlham
College-at Richmond, Indiana, and in 1885, when a youth of sixteen years, came
to Minneapolis with his father. Here he was employed for a time by a machinery
company and afterward entered the employ of the Minnesota & Dakota Elevator
Company. In the meantime he had attended night school and he also pur­sued a law
course in the University of Minnesota, covering a period of four years.
In 1893 the degree of Bachelor of Laws was conferred upon him. He completed his
studies at the University in June, 1894, at which time the degree of Master of
Laws was conferred upon him. His knowledge of the science of jurisprudence, is
of great value to him in the conduct of the business interests, which now engage
his attention. In May, 1894, he became associated with the Minneapolis Trust
Company as attorney on probate matters, working through all the official
positions of assistant secretary, secretary, treasurer and vice president until
in January, 1920, he was elected to the presidency, which position he is now
filling. He had won steady advancement through all the intermediate positions
and departments of this corporation and is thoroughly familiar with every phase
and detail of the business, as well as with its major features. The company was
organized in 1888 anti has grown to be one of the very strong financial concerns
of this state. Mr. Webb is also a director of the First National Bank and has
come to be a recognized authority on many financial matters.
On the 9th of June, 1898, Mr. Webb was married to Miss Margaret McDonald of
Minneapolis, and they have become parents of three children: Harriet McDonald,
Robert W. and John McDonald. Mr. Webb holds to the religious faith of his
an­cestors and is a member of the Friends meeting. He took part in all the war
activi­ties, acting as chairman of the bankers committee through four campaigns
for the promotion of the Liberty Loans. He is interested in many activities and
agencies which have to do with the public welfare, being a trustee of the
Dunwoody Institute and treasurer of the Family Welfare Association and of
Pillsbury House. He is like­wise a member of the Phi Delta Phi, a law
fraternity, and in club circles he is well known, having been president of the
Minneapolis Club in 1917, while he also served one term as president of the
Minikahda Club. His ability to direct important social affairs, as well as
extensive business enterprises, is indicative of his versatility and of his
well-balanced nature, for he has never allowed business nor professional
interests so to monopolize his time as to exclude his active participation in
those projects which have to do with the public welfare or the advancement of
the city along social and cultural lines.