History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 714.
[Harrison County]  [Rutland Precinct]

HON. W. A. WEBBER, farmer, P. O. Rutland, whose portrait appears in this
work, is a native of Jessamine County, Ky., where he was born March 4,
1817; his paternal grandfather came from Virginia to this State about
1795, and settled in Jessamine County, where he resided up to the time of
his death, which occurred about 1815.  His widow, Sarah (Anderson) Webber,
removed with her family, consisting of five daughters, one son, and
grandson (subject) to Harrison County in 1817; Annie W., the eldest, and
widowed daughter, who was mother of our subject, after coming to Harrison
County, married James Burgess, by whom she raised three sons and three
daughters, and died in 1834; her son, W. A. Webber, like many other young
men of that early day enjoyed but limited facilities for an education;
being the eldest son, he was compelled to remain at home the greater
portion of his time and attend to the duties of the farm, such as going
to mill, caring for the stock, &c., &c.; when but fourteen years of age,
he relinquished the idea entirely of securing even a fair education, and
at once turned his attention to making a living for himself; his first
venture was to hire out to a neighbor by the month for which service he
received the very limited salary of $3.50.  However, by carefully saving
this paltry sum, and adding to it little by little, in a few years he
found himself possessed of sufficient means to purchase and pay for a
small tract of ten acres of land.  About this time he had a dissipated
neighbor who owned about 100 acres of land, and who was accustomed to sell
from five to ten acres annually for the purpose of defraying his expenses
and our subject by industry and economy managed to save money enough
yearly to buy these small strips and in a few years he possessed the
entire farm.  In 1841 Mr. Webber had increased his farm to 150 acres, and
on Dec. 21 of this year, he was married to Lucinda Jane, daughter of
James and Nancy (Blair) Baird, and to the help and counsel of this most
estimable wife and companion, Mr. Webber attributes much of his future
success.  This union was blessed with one son, James Henry, who was born
on the 29th of January 1843; when in his twentieth year this only son
left his parental roof and started to join the Southern army, but being
of very delicate constitution, he was taken sick a few days afterward at
Lexington, Ky.; his parents hearing of this, they at once sent and had
him brought home, where he died on the 16th of January, 1863.  In 1853
Mr. Webber sold his entire farm, then containing 300 acres, and removed
to Rutland, where he engaged in the mercantile business for twelve months
in partnership with John Mullin; at the end of this year they sold their
store to William Laughlin, and our subject exchanged his other Rutland
property for 200 acres of land lying about one mile west of that place,
where he moved in 1855, and again engaged in agricultural pursuits; in
1860 he again sold out and bought an undivided one-half interest in what
was then known as the Kendall farm, and upon which he still resides; this
farm contained 845 acres.  At the close of the third year on this place
he purchased the other half; in 1870 he added 170 acres more to his farm,
which made him one of the largest land owners in his end of the county;
besides this he owns good property at Williamstown, Grant Co., and also
at Glencoe, on the Short Line Railroad; 300 shares in the Farmers'
National Bank of Cynthiana, and much more than this amount loaned out to
his neighbors and friends; thus showing to the rising young men of his
county what can be accomplished by industry, economy and close application
to business; he is a Director of the Harrison County Agricultural
Association, also of the Farmers' National Bank of Cynthiana, dating his
connection with both corporations from their foundation.  In 1877 Mr.
Webber was elected by the Democratic party to represent his county in the
Lower House of the Legislature, which office he filled with credit to
himself and entire satisfaction to his constituency.  He and his wife,
who is now an invalid, have been prominently connected with the methodist
Church for many years.

Webber Blair Baird Anderson Laughlin Mullin Burgess
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Grant-KY Jessamine-KY VA

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