Biographical Sketch of Elwood WEBSTER (1893); Chester County, PA

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Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl-
vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley
and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila-
delphia, PA, 1893, pp. 482-3.

"ELWOOD WEBSTER, a substantial citizen and a prosperous farmer and stock
dealer of Lower Oxford township, is a son of William and Sarah (Lukens)
Webster, and was born in Bart township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
August 30, 1846.  He received his education in the public schools of
Chester county and the Unionville Boarding school, and then rented a farm
which he tilled for several years.  At the end of that time he bought some
land in Lower Oxford township, and a few years later purchased his present
farm, upon which he has resided ever since his purchase of it.  His home
farm consists of seventy acres of good land, and he owns another farm of
one hundred and forty-seven acres in East Nottingham township.  His land
is all under good cultivation, and he has been actively engaged for many
years in farming and in shipping and dealing in live stock.  He is an
industrious and reliable man, and one of the best farmers of his section
of the county.  He is a republican in politics, who warmly supports his
party, but who does not allow political matters to take any necessary
time from his business affairs.

"On February 19, 1873, Elwood Webster married Clara Wilson, daughter of
James Wilson, of West Grove, this county.  To their union have been born
two children, a son and a daughter: Dora C. and Lawrence.

"On his paternal wide Mr. Webster is descended from the Webster family of
Chester county, of which his grandfather, George Webster, was a member.
George Webster was a native of Chester county, but spent the greater part
of his life as a farmer in Bart township, Lancaster county, where he died.
He was a whig and republican in politics, and a member of the Society of
Friends.  He married Sarah Conard, and reared a family of eight children:
Hannah Brown, Martha Moore, Patience Smith Naylor, Jesse, George, William,
and Samuel.  Of these children but two - Martha and Patience - are living.
William Webster, one of these sons, and the father of Elwood Webster, was
born in January, 1809, in Lancaster county, but lived most of his life in
Chester county, where he died in May, 1885, when in the seventy-sixth year
of his age.  He received a good education, and, after teaching school for
some time, engaged in farming, which he followed until he retired from
active life.  He was a republican, and a member of the Society of Friends.
He married Sarah Lukens, who was a daughter of Daniel Lukens, a farmer and
Quaker, who married Mary Shoemaker, whose services as a minister of the
Society of Friends were highly beneficial in missionary work among the
Indians and the inmates of prisons.  Mrs. Webster was born in November,
1808, was a Friend, and died in November, 1886.  She left four children:
Patience Kent, Mary L. Kent, Samuel, and Elwood."