. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. ivate tutor there andat the Central High School. He entered Yale in1864, graduating as Bachelor of Arts in 1868, andreceived the degree of Master of Arts three yearslater. While in College he became a member ofPhi Beta Kappa. In September 1868, Mr. Web-ster entered the law office of James Mason atCleveland, and took the degree of Bachelor ofLaws at the Ohio State and Union Law College onVOL. IV. — 32 June 29, 1870
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. ivate tutor there andat the Central High School. He entered Yale in1864, graduating as Bachelor of Arts in 1868, andreceived the degree of Master of Arts three yearslater. While in College he became a member ofPhi Beta Kappa. In September 1868, Mr. Web-ster entered the law office of James Mason atCleveland, and took the degree of Bachelor ofLaws at the Ohio State and Union Law College onVOL. IV. — 32 June 29, 1870. He engaged in the general prac-tice of his profession in Cleveland, and in 1884formed a partnership with E. .\. .Angell, which con-tinued until the latters death in 1898. He wasappointed in 1884 assignee of the insolvent bank-ing house of Everett & Weddell, the largest privatefinancial institution in northern Ohio at that time,and for eight years was engaged in the liquida-tion of its indebtedness, amounting to upwards of$3,000,000, which was paid in full with interest,and over $500,000 returned to the original 1891 he was made assignee of the Variety Iron. J. H. WKliSTER Works Company, with authority to continue the busi-ness, and is still actively engaged in this work. is also the President and Manager of theChamberlin Cartridge & Target Company and of theCleveland Target Company. He holds other posi-tions of trust, having been for fourteen years Secre-tary of the Cleveland Bar Association, for eighteenyears Trustee of the Cleveland Law Library, and forseven years Treasurer of the Cleveland ManualTraining School, and is a member of the Chamberof Commerce, LTnion and University Clubs, a Fel-low and Treasurer of the Rowfant Club, and amember of the University Club of New has been a steadfast and lifelong member of theRepublican party, but has never sought public 498 UNIFERSiriES AND THEIR SONS office. October i8, 1870, he married Helen A. he
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