Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . f for his successful mercantile 1881 he accepted a position as traveling salesmanfor a wholesale boot and shoe house of Boston, covering the States of Illinois, Iowa and Ne-braska. His preference, nevertheless, being for thecarpet trade, in which branch of business he his early training, he entered the employ ofStark Bros., of Milwaukee, but soon left that firm toenter upon an en
Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . f for his successful mercantile 1881 he accepted a position as traveling salesmanfor a wholesale boot and shoe house of Boston, covering the States of Illinois, Iowa and Ne-braska. His preference, nevertheless, being for thecarpet trade, in which branch of business he his early training, he entered the employ ofStark Bros., of Milwaukee, but soon left that firm toenter upon an engagement with W. & J. Sloane, ofNew York. In 1874 he returned to Connecticut and:embarked in business for himself, at years later he sold out this establishment toaccept his present responsible position, that of secre-tary and superintendent of the Malleable Iron Worksof New Britain, Mr. Webster is also engaged in ag-ricultural pursuits, carrying on a truck and producefarm at New Britain, and he has extensive farminginterests in his native town, Harwinton. Mr. Webster has been repeatedly honored by elec-tion to office, although the duties of official life have. COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 437 been forced upon him, rather than sought. Forthree years he was a member of the common coun-cil of the city, and has been four times in successionelected a member of the school board, in which bodyhe is now serving his tenth year. In 1896 he waselected to the Connecticut Legislature by 1,868 ma-jority—the largest ever received by any candidatefor an office in the city of New Britain. Duringhis service in the House he was chairman of theCommittee on Agriculture, which revised, in a sat-isfactory manner, the agricultural legislation of In the spring of 1898 Mr. Webster waselected mayor for a term of two years, which posi-tion he filled until the spring of 1900, refusing re-nomination. He is a prominent member of and fraternal orders, amon
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