The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-11-03

ioailsDuTy, NeW IlanlpSnlre, uHu lc was
therefore aged seventy years,nine months,
and six days. His family originally
came from Scotland His earliest ances-
tor, of whom the family have any GER
tain knowledge, was Thomas Webster,
who settled at Hampton, as early as
1886. The descent from him to Daniel
Webster is recorded in the church rec
ords of Hampton, East Kingston and
Salisbury. His mother, Miss Eastman,
of Salisbury, was the second wife of his
father, Ebenezer Webster, and a woman
of rare intellectual endowments. His
preparation for college was under the
care of DIR. Benjamin Abbott, and the
Rev. Sam'l Woods Many characters
ic incidents connected with this part of
his early history may be found III Mr..
March's volume. In August, 1897, Mr..
Webster entered Dartmouth College, as
freshman. He graduated in lS0l.-
Immediately afterwards became a law
student in the Office of Mr. Thompson,in
his native town, subsequently migrated
to take charge of school at Frycburg
Maine, where he added to the scanty en-.
olumcnts of the post by acting as assis.
tent to the register of deeds for the
county
In September. 1902, Mr. Webster re-
turned to Mr.. Thompson's Office, where
he prosecuted his studies until February
1904, occupying himself also with the
Latin classics During that year Mr.
Webster went to Boston and became q
student in the Office of the Hon. Chris
topher Gore He was admitted to prac
tsc in the Suffolk Court of Common
Pleas in March, 1905. In about a ycal
afterwards Mr.. Wcbstor's father died
at Boscawen, where the son, prompted
by fiial attachment and desire to be
near his father in his declining years hat
commenced practice, having previously
declined the clcrkship of the Common
Pleas of IIillsborough, New Hampshire
offered to him out of respect for his faith
er. The post was worth 81 800 year
In 1907. Mr.. Webster removed to Ports
mouth. In lS0S he married Miss Fletch
or, of Hopkinton, N. H. Mr. Fletcher
Webster is the only surviving issue Of
the Marriage. The present Mrs Web
sters was the daughter of Herman lie
roy, Esqrc. of this city. In Portsmouth
MIR. Webster resided nine years Dur
ing that time he was associated with ;
bar of rare eminencc, among whom were
Jeremiah Mason. Edward st. Loe Liv
crmorc, jeremiah Smith, William Kinl
Atkinson, George Sullivan, Samuel Dcx
ter aud Joseph Story; yet he appeared
as junior counsel but ten times. In May
1911, he took his seat in Congress, as
representative from New Hampshire an,
though one of the youngest members o
the House, was placed upon the commit
tee on foreign affairs, always an impor
tant committee, but at that time pecu
liarly so. Mr.. Webster was then bu
thirty years of age. From this point hi
public life may be said to have com
menccd.
His first speech III Congress was dc
livered on the 10th Of June, 1913. |
was i'll support of series of resolutions
introduced by himself, designed to elicit
communication from the Executiv
which would unfold the proximate cause
of the war His speech surprised tn
House by its display of historical know
ledge and illustrative ability. 1t rivet
cd the attention of all The resolution
prevailed, and to them the country wa
indebted for very full and instructiv,
report from Mr. Monroe then Secretar
of State At this session of Congress
Mr. Webster also made effective speeche
upon the increase of the navy, and ur
ON the resembling of the embargo an,
took his place in the front rank of Par
liamentary debaters. In 1914 he wa
reelected to Congress, and in Januar
of the following year spoke against Mr.
Dallas's bill for the charter of the Unite,
States Bank. The bank was to be uu
der obligation to lend the Governmen
thirty millions of dollars on demand an,
to enable it to do so, was to be relieve
from redeeming its notes in specie MI
Webster, in injunction with Mr. Ca
10 III. Mr.. Lowndes and others, strenuou,
~ oPposcu 'hc Hn|asure--as uh arrange
mcnt for the issue of an irredeemabl
paper currency--as project not onl
unsound in its principles, but tending t
increase the arrangement of the currer
cy already existing Mr. Webster
speech upon this project displayed a de
gree of research and a mastery of tn
somewhat difficult subjects of banking an
finance, rarely seen in the debates in Cor
gress The project was lost, but revived b
reconsideration on motion of Mr. Wei
ster, and such amendments introduce
that it was finally adopted by the Hous
and passed through the Senatejbut it wa
negatived by Mr. Madison, being one q