Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-12-27
DEATH OF REV. DR.. 6. N.
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Rev. DIR. George N. Webber, 81, Of
Northampton, for many years professor
OF moral and mental science at Middle.
bury (vt.) college and later lecturer on
mental philosophy at Smith college, died
yesterday morning at the home Of hie
daughter, Mrs. Clinton E. Bell of IL
Avon place, this city. Since retiring
from his connection with Smith col.
lege about 10 years ago DR.. webber
had continued to make his home In
Northampton, where ne was widely
known. He was spending this winter
with his daughter in this city and had
been III but three weeks. He was first
taken with bronchitis from which he
was unable to rally owing to complica.
tions due to old age. He leaves three
daughters and one son, Mrs. William
Northrup Mcmillan of London, Eng. Mrs.
Walter Maxwell of Australia, Mrs. C. E.
Bell of this city and Frederick ,vebber
OF st. Louis. Mo. The funeral will be
held from the Bell home at $3.50 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon.
DR.. Webber was of Connecticut birth
by Dutch descent on his paternal side,
his fathers ancestors having come to this
country from The Hague. DIR. Webber
was born in Pomfret, Ct, August 27
1925, the son of Ariel and Lucine
(Holmes) Webber. He graduated from
Amherst college with the class of 1852
and from the Andover theological semi
nary two years later. After leaving An
dover he returned to Amherst where he
taught one year. His first pastorate was
in st. Johnsburv. VT, where he settled
in December 1855. In May. 1858. he
married his first wife, who was Miss
Charlotte Fairbanks, daughter of Thad-
deus Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury. In
November, 1859, Mr. Webber was called
to the North church of Hartford. Ct.
now called the Park church, and he re.
mained there until June, 1862, when he
enlisted as chaplain of the 1st Connecti-
cut regiment with which he served three
months. He was succeeded i'm the
Hartford church by DIR. Horace Bush
nell. His next pastorate was over the
First Congregational church of Lowell
where he was situated when in 1865 he
was elected to the chair of moral and
mental science in Middlebury college.
DR.. Webher served Middlebury college
until 1874, when he was called to the
pastorate Of the First Presbyterian
church of Troy, N. Y, and it was there
that he was in the prime of his physical
and mental powers. He became widely
known in Troy and that part of New York
state as an able preacher and vital force,
1t was while he was professor at Middle
bury that he was given the degree of
doctor of divinity by Amherst His Sec
ond wife was Caroline K. Ladd, daugh-
ter of Rev. Daniel Ladd of Middlebury.
and they were married in 1871. 1t was
in the early days of Smith college that
DR.. Webber was called there as lecturer
on mental philosophy and ethics and he
continued this connection until the early
'9O's and was well known TO all of the older
alumnae of the college. His long resi-
dence in that city had brought him into
a wide circle of acquaintances and
friends, by whom he was respected and
loved.-Springfield Republican, Dec. 20.
Doctor Webber's connection with the
college and the town was closer than the
foregoing article would indicate. In
1886 he again occupied the college
chair of intellectual and moral phiioso.
ply, as professor pro ten,pore, and in
1919 served as minister of the Congre-
gational church. AT the celebration of
the church's centennial in 1890 he preach
ed the anniversary sermon. Very many
will reme mber with admiration his ex-
ceptional ability in these varied fields. 81