Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1849-12-13
FROM tie Boston Herald.
PROFESSOR WEBSTER.

arysman, has gained the highest stand.
ing in society and the respect of the
world. His published essays his con.
tributions to Silliman's and other scien.
tiic journals, have been read with inter-
est by the public, and esteemed Of great
value to the philosopher.
He is a man 81 years of age, q native
Of Boston, and the son Of DR.. Redfield
Webster, who for many years kept a
drug store at the North End, and prac.
ticed as a physician. He died well to do
in the worlds goods his son was at an
carly period Of his life sent to Harvard
College, and after pursuing his course OF
studies, graduated ia 1911, with every
prospect Of rapid fame and fortune. He
subsequently made the tour of Europe,
and on May 18th, 1914, returned to
Boston, having married young and vo-
luptuous Spanish lady, a resident Of the
Island of Fayal, in the West Indies.
The youth and surprising beauty, sweet
ness Of manner and intellectual accom-
plishments of his young bride created a
great sensation among the mode in this
city. They were the observed of all OBJ
servers, and the brilliant ornaments Of
every scene of grace, beauty and fash
ion. The remnant of his fathers estate,
and the portion OF his bride, furnished a
handsome income to Dr.. Webster. But
his brilliant intellect was sought for by
every literary circle and sometime in
1920, if we are correctly informed, he
was appointed as the Professor Of Chem
istry at Cambridge, and for years subse-
quent to that period, his name and fame
are 100 familiar to the world to need any
remark from our pen.
His lectures before the students of
Medicine are chronicled as the legitimate
test and treasured US as knowledge OF
pinceless value. We have often heard
his lectures at the Mason street College,
as well as Cambridge, and been highly
edited by every one Of them.
With genius, money very rarely keeps
pace, and it is known to be so in the case
of Dr.. Webster His means were at
the time of his appointment to the Pro
fessorship, limited, and having quite
large family of children and relatives,
and certain dignity to keep up in So
ciety, the salary was barely enough to
afford lifes comforts, without the delica-
sizes of fashionable intercommunion.
He had recently commenced q course
of lectures in this city and at Providence,
the price being ten dollars each, for the
whole term. For years past, he had al
so given lectures upon the same terms.
but not having that important quality of
prudence and economy, that requires
every one to live within his means. he
was often found in embarrassed cireum-
stances-compelled to borrow money to
pay the urgent and pressing demands of
of his creditors, and so clamorous were
they at times, that, in order to raise the
ways and means, he gave mortgages on
the remnant OF such real or personal es-
tate as he had at his command.
He loved the good things Of life, and
enjoyed them with that freedom that
thought not of the morrow. He often
attended balls, public dinners. and at
times had private box at the Athae-
un1.
His family now consits of wife and
four daughters, the youngest sixteen
years age, and the eldest about twenty
three. The oldest is married to Mr..
Dabney. the present Consul at Fayal.
The other three daughters reside at
Cambridge, and with their mother. are in
deep affection on the account of the ar
rest and suspicious of their husband and
father
In conversation he vas mild, but in
his studies he Was known to be an en-
lhusiast, and to mix dollars and cents up
with them was pei dition to his sentiment
mind, 1t is we'll know fact, that for
some time past, Dr.. Webster has had
business dealings with DR.. Parkman, and
borrowed large sums Of money from him,
the last being about $476; for this a
mortgage was given, but the time of
pay ment having arrived, Dr.. Paikman,
with his accustomed promp,ness, called
for the settlement and was denied. He
was very pressing, as thousands knowing
his accustomed mode of doing business
will appreciate, and the interviews be-
tween the debtor and creditor gave rise
to hard and angry words. Dr.. Parkman.
knowing that Dr.. Webster had about
one hundred and fifty persons subscribed
to attend his course Of lectures, each of
whom were to pay ten dollars, intimated
that he should Trustee" the subscribers
to the amount of his claim, unless the
amount was Immediately forthcoming.
and it is further we'll known that this
threat, in the Strengthened condition of
Dr.. Webster, occasioned much bitter
blood on the part of DR.. w. and feud
was opened between them. DR.. PMk-
man subsequently called at the college.
according to promise, but not finding his