Bio of William Wallace WEBSTER (b.1832 d.1895), 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.

Pages 1088-1089

William Wallace Webster, now deceased, was born in Sherbrooke, Providence 
of Quebec, Canada, April 1, 1832, and was there reared.  His youth and 
early manhood was devoted to farming and mercantile pursuits.  In 1856 
he came to the United States, and soon thereafter located in Clearwater.  
Subsequently he engaged in various lines of endeavor until August, 1861, 
when he went to Fort Snelling and enlisted in the Third Minnesota Volunteer 
Infantry.  He was elected first lieutenant, was later promoted to captain 
and served as such until after the battle of Murfreesboro, when from 
meritorious service he was promoted to major, which position he held at 
the close of his service, which terminated in 1864 on account of illness.  
He then returned to Clearwater, where he engaged in the mercantile business 
for the remainder of his life.  William Wallace Webster was married in 1861 
to Malvina Woodworth, by whom he had three sons, William F. Charles H. and 
Arthur, who died in infancy.  Mrs. Malvina (Woodworth) Webster died November 
30, 1868. He then was married on August 22, 1871, to Lucy C. Walker, who is 
still living.  To this union were born two children, Wallace and Anna l.  
Major Webster was a charter member of Clearwater lodge, No. 28, A. F. & 
A.M. and was its secretary at the time of his death.  He was also a member 
of St. Cloud Chapter, No. 46, R. A. M., and of the A. C. Collins Post, NO. 
112, G. A. R.  He died November 18, 1895, and his death was sincerely 
mourned.  The Clearwater "New" said of him: "Mr. Webster was a man 
concerning whom it is no small task to prepare an obituary which will 
do ample justice to his memory.  In his home a devoted husband and 
loving parent, in his business honest and industrious, in his public 
life one loyal in the interests of the republic, a leader whom all might 
follow with safety, he stood almost without a peer in the midst of a wide 
circle of friends."