Biographical Sketch of Samuel L. 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, page 483.

"SAMUEL L. WEBSTER, the second child and eldest son of William and Sarah
(Lukens) Webster, was born in Bart township, Lancaster county, Pennsyl-
vania, August 26, 1842.  He received his education in the common schools
of Chester county and Walnut Green and Unionville academies, and then took
a course in the Poughkeepsie Business college of New York, from which he
was graduated in 1864.  Immediately after graduation he took a full course
at the Chestnut Street Art school of Philadelphia, and taught art classes
for three years in West Chester Normal school.  He also taught in various
academies and had classes in different parts of the county until 1873,
when he abandoned art teaching.  Since then he has been engaged in farming,
and also give some attention to literary work.  He now owns a farm of
ninety acres of improved land in Hopewell borough.  He is a prohibitionist,
and a member of the Hicksite Friends' meeting, and on March 11, 1875,
married Esther, daughter of John Lancaster, of Baltimore, Maryland.  His
children are: Franklin, Sarah, Mary E., Helen, Alice C., Ethel, E. Stanley,
Robert B., and Esther.  Samuel Webster is known as a man of integrity and
honor, whose influence has always been for the good of his community."