Bio of Horace WEBSTER (b.1828), Wright Co., MN
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Clearwater, Silver Creek and Corinna Excerpts from :  
Curtiss-Wedge, Franklin.  History of Wright County Minnesota.  
Volume II.  Chicago: H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co. 1915.   
Call Number:977.6C94h

CHAPTER XXXV
BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW.

Page 1080-1081

Horace Webster, one of the most honored of Wright county pioneers, and 
now the oldest living settler in Clearwater township, was one of the 
original proprietors of Clearwater village.  He was born in Canada East, 
July 6, 1828, and about 1849 came to what is now Minneapolis, and engaged 
in lumbering for several years.  From there he went to what is now 
Minnetonka, where he likewise remained for a period.  In 1855, Horace 
Webster, Simon Stevens and John Farwell came to Clearwater village, 
which Asa White and A. Boyinton had chosen as the site for their proposed 
"El Dorado."  Her the Messrs. Webster, Stevens and Farwell determined to 
establish a village of their own. They accordingly made many improvements, 
and the following years entered the site as "Clearwater Village" in the 
name of Simon Stevens and J. H. Talbott.  In 1857, Mr. Webster took a 
claim of 160 acres in sections 1 and 12, Clearwater township.  He broke 
the land, erected buildings, and engaged in general farming.  From the 
first, he was highly respected and influential citizen, and in time he 
became one of the leading farmers of the county.  On his original homestead, 
Mr. Webster has continued to reside.  Now at the age of eighty-seven he 
is a remarkable man, sprightly and active, with a keen sense of humor, 
and all the ripened wisdom that the years have taught him.  He can read 
without glasses, and is well versed in all the topics of the day.  His 
thoughts as he looks back over his useful and well-spent life are pleasant 
ones.  Beginning with a little log cabin on a claim of 160 acres of wild 
land, he now has 225 acres of fertile soil, provided with a frame house 
and other suitable buildings.  He has served as a member of the town and 
school boards, and in minor offices.  He helped to build the Congregational 
and Catholic churches in Clearwater.  He is not a church member, but 
attends the Methodist Episcopal services.  Mr. Webster was married in 
October, 1854, to Miranda Pease, who proved a faithful helpmate and a 
loving wife and mother.  She died May 20, 1902, leaving three children: 
Mary H., George H. and Fed.  Mary H. married Frank Harrington, of 
Clearwater township and has two children: Charles and Harriett.  George 
H. died in 1903.  Fred conducts the home farm.  He married May Dean, and 
they have four children: Clarence, Grace, Lucy and Lucille, the two last 
named being twins.