L. A. Webb Biography


	This biography appears on page 926 in "History of Dakota 
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				L. A. WEBB. 

	L. A. Webb, president and treasurer of the Webb-Carter Shoe 
Company, is prominently identified with commercial interests of 
Aberdeen and in his chosen field has won that success which comes from 
long experience and practical ability. He was born in New York in 1863 
and acquired his education in the public schools of that city and in 
Adelphi Academy of Brooklyn. Following the completion of his studies he 
went to Iowa and in 1882 engaged in the shoe business there, following 
this occupation later in Nebraska and afterward in Watertown, South 
Dakota, whither he moved in 1899. In 1902 he located in Aberdeen as 
manager of the shoe business controlled by the Olwin-Angell Company, 
and in 1909 he bought this business, establishing the Webb-Carter Shoe 
Company, of which he has since been president and treasurer. M. S. Webb 
is secretary of this concern and D. H. Carter, a manufacturer of 
Toledo, Ohio, is vice president. The store building is a twenty-five by 
sixty-five foot structure containing two stories and a basement and is 
modern and complete in every detail. The company carries only the 
highest grades of shoes and has always on hand a large and well 
selected stock of goods which is marked by correctness of style and 
high quality of workmanship. Mr. Webb gives a great deal of his time to 
the affairs of the concern, and its success in due in a great measure 
to his well directed efforts. He understands the shoe business in 
principle and detail and is a man of excellent business ability and 
sound judgment. 

	In 1888 Mr. Webb married Miss Mattie S. Danforth, a native of 
Vermont and a graduate of Mount Holyoke College of South Hadley, 
Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Webb have become the parents of two 
children, a son and a daughter. Mr. Webb is a member of the 
Presbyterian church and a republican in his political beliefs. He is 
connected fraternally with the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen 
of America and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In business circles 
he has built along legitimate lines and the concern which he has 
established and promoted constitutes an element of worth in the 
community.