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WILLIAM A.
WEBB is the popular druggist at Dalton City,
Moultrie County, and in the compounding of medicines and
remedies, is considered very expert. He is a
dealer in grain, buying from the country around, which
is rich in its cereals, and finding a ready market with
the large grain buyers of Chicago. Our subject has
been engaged in business at the same stand since 1873,
at which date he became associated with George Ferro,
under the firm name of Webb & Ferro, dealing at
first in the general mercantile business, and also the
grain business. He has remained constant to his
post of business ever since, and is now one of the
oldest business men in the place, and the leading grain
merchants in the town.
Mr. Webb is a native of Kentucky. being born in
Boyle County, May 27, 1841. He is a son of
William R. and Jane (Moore) Webb, natives of
Virginia and Kentucky respectively, but married in the
latter State. In 1837 they emigrated to Parke
County, Ind., and lived on a farm for a short time.
Thence they removed to Greencastle. In 1859 they
removed to Decatur, Ill., and there became proprietors
of the Oglesby House, now known as the St.
Nicholas. In 1862 they removed to Mason,
having traded the hotel property for a farm. Our
subject's fatehr subsequently retired from the active
business of agricultural life, and made his home in the
village of Mason; he there died in 1874. His wife
had expired some years previous while residing in
Decatur.
Our subject is one of a family of eight children, all
of whom lived to be grown. By name they are as
follows; Lucy, Margaret, Theodocia, Richard,
Jane H., Lewis F., William A. and Edward S.
Margaret married Joseph Ferguson, and is now
a resident of Wichita, Kan.; Theodocia became the
wife of William H. Baird, of Macon, Ill.;
Lewis resides at Mason. The father of our
subject was a Whig in his political preference, and
during life was the incumbent of several local offices.
He served as Justice of the Peace for several years.
In his religious preference he is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he was a
Class-Leader, and throughout life a liberal supporter of
the Gospel work.
William Webb
passed his early life in his father's hotel and on
reaching his majority he entered the grain trade at
Mason and continued to be thus employed until he came to
Dalton City, at which place he became one of the first
merchants. He sold out his interest in the store
to Mr. Ferro and gave his entire attention
to his grain trade. He was also for four years
station agent at Dalton. He also dealt in live
stock, and in 1891 established his drug business.
Mr. Webb was marred
id 1874 to Miss Retta B. Jeffries, of
Philadelphia, Pa. The lady is a daughter of Thomas
J. Jeffries, a machinist and a manufacturer of car
springs in the above named city. Mr. and Mrs.
Webb are the parents of one child. Politically
our subject is a Republican, having been brought up to
that party and platform, and having imbibed the theories
as held by the Republicans by inheritance and youthful
association as by cool judgment. Our subject has
at different times held various local offices.
Socially he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. In the line of his business he also deals
quite largely in agricultural implements and machinery.
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ALBERT WYMAN, a large and successful dealer in boots
and shoes, who is doing business in a fine establishment
at the southwest corner of the public square, came to
Sullivan, Moultrie County, in 1870 and entered upon work
as a journeyman shoemaker. Later he began business
on his own account and finally added a stock of goods
and opened a store. He has been a hard-working man
and is the architect of his own fortune, and out of his
profits he has built the commodious business house which
he now occupies. It is twenty-two feet side by
eighty-two feet deep, the stories high was built in
1885, since which time he has kept it stocked with an
excellent and extensive line of boots and shoes.
Mr. Wyman came here from St. Louis, to which
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