Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11
DEATH OF JUDGE w. c. WEBB.
The Close or a Busy Life.

Sixty years OF a OuSy lie were Clos
ed when Judge W. c. Webb died at
Topeka on the 10Th of April, 1893. He
was born on the 21st of April, 1924, in
Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and
his birth. He learned the printers
trade when boy, and was publisher
of newspapers in Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Wisconsin, to which latter state
he removed from Pennsylvania in 1883.
He taught school in his early years:
studied law and was admitted TO the
bar on the eighth of June, 1851, hav-
ing been member of the legal frater-
nifty for nearly forty-seven years.
Judge Webb was free-soil democrat
when he entered that party, and stay
ed with it for thirty-seven years, when
in 1891 he affiliated with the peoples
party because of his dissatisfaction
with the changed policy of the repub-
lican party in regard to the coinage
and financial questions, and for the
reason that the republican party had
become so corrupt, intolerant and pro-
scriptive, that man of Judge Webb's
independence could no longer affiliate
with it. OF positive mind, blunt and
out-spoken in speech, he of course
made enemies; but many who knew
him well and appreciated his earnest
and honest mind, and his warm and
generous heart, became and remained
his friends. He was several times a
member of the Wisconsin Assembly,
and three times elected to the Kansas
house of representatives. He had
large legislative experience, wide
range of legal knowledge, and it was
his ambition to close his life as one of
the judges of the state, but his pro-
nounced views on certain public ques-
tions, and his habit of forcibly express
ing himself about men and measures,
thwarted his ambition; and later his
advanced years precluded his election
to the judiciary. He was a ceaseless
worker, and the substance of his years
of toll was given to others. He was
one of the most unselfish of men, and
charity to the poor was the greatest
duty enjoyed by his religion of human.
ity, and his sense of obligation to God.
Judge Webb served during the war
of the rebellion as quartermaster of
the 37th Wis. Vol. Infantry, and was
commissioned as colonel of the SD
Wis. He was 4 member of Lincoln
Post No. 1, the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, the Masonic and the
Odd Fellow orders. He leaves wild
ow (his fourth wife), and four children
Mrs. X. L. Walker, of Kansas City,
Linus S. Webb, of Girard, Lowell II.
Webb, of Winfield and Mrs. G. L.
Walker of Baxter Springs. His oldest
son, Leland J. Webb, died in Topeka,
in 1898.
Judge Webb and his SON Leland.
with two grandchildren, Mabel Webb
Wells, and Herman L. Webb, are bur-
led in Topeka cemetary. Many of
the younger lawyers of Kansas will
long remember the wise council and
kindly assistance given them by
Judge Webb. He died a poor man,
but left to his children and friends the
heritage of an honest mana good
name.
The following resolutions were
adopted by the Populist F1ambeau
club, of Topeka, upon the death of
judge Webb:
Whereas, The Populist Flambeau
club has just learned of the death of
hon. W. c. Webb, of this city, one of
the most sturdy and prominent citi-
zens OF the state; one of the most
eminent jurists and lawyers in Kan
sas; respected and honorable mem-
Der of the Peoples party. Therefore,
be it
Resolved, By the Shawnee County
Populist Flambeau club, that we re-
gret the death of Hon. w. c. Webb
during these stirring times, in which
his active brain, his splendid courage.
his fearless opinions, and his sterling
integrity would be of iucalculable
value.
Resolved, That the state has lost one
, OF It's best citizens, the community
one of its r.ost progressive members.
the peoples party one of its most sim
: cere advocates, the family a kind
father, and the wife a loving and af-
fectionate husband.
Resolved, That this FIambeau club
; extends to the family our most sincere
sympathy in this hour of their great
= est sorrow and deepest gloom.
i Resolved, That copy ST these reso-
: luton be sent to the family. and to the
e press for publication, and a copy
!. spread on the minutes of this club.
a FRED J. CLOSE, Pres.
GEO. f. BURGESS, Sec.
;. L. T. YOUNT, Chrm. Com
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