Benjamin Franklin Webster Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

Surname: WEBSTER
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 898

  BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WEBSTER, one of the older residents
of Portsmouth, who has acquired a competence in the building trade,
was born in Epsom, N. H., September 7, 1824, the third son and sixth
child of Richard and Mary (or Polly) (Philbrick) Webster. He re-
ceived his primary education in the schools of that town and was also
a student at Pembroke and in Rye. At the age of seventeen years he
came to Portsmouth and was employed by Benjamin Norton as an
apprentice to the carpenter's trade. He was a ship joiner for several
years and since then has been engaged in building operations in this
city. Through industry and perseverance,.coupled with ability and up-
right business methods, he has been prosperous down to the present
time. His operations have included the erection of some notable build-
ings, including the Kearsarge House and the Cabot street schoolhouse ;
also the remodeling of three churches and the building of many resi-
dences. He is a large property owner in Portsmouth and in the year
1913 alone he paid some $3,500 in taxes.
  Mr. Webster partakes of the characteristics for which his long line
of ancestry has been noted and is a progressive and useful citizen of
his home town, taking a great interest in local affairs and public im-
provements. he has been frequently called upon to serve in official
positions and has been ward clerk and assessor. In politics he is an
ardent and enthusiastic Republican, He is a valued member of the
Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree.
Although now in his ninetieth year he is still hale and hearty and does
not use eye-glasses. His life has been spent in active work since he
was a lad and he has continued in the harness down to the present time.
In addition to his regular business interests he is a director in the Ports-
mouth Trust & Guarantee Company of Portsmouth. He attends the
Unitarian Church,
  Mr. Webster was married January 2, 1849, to Sarah A. Senter, who
died April 23, 1913. They had two children-Merrit V. and Stella C.
Webster. Mr. Webster has four grandchildren and three great-grand-
children.

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