“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


GEORGE W. WEBB, telegraph operator at Watertown Junction, for the 
C., M. & St. P. R. R. Co.; born in Conesus, N. Y., May 31, 1852; son of 
Sailor P. Webb, a lawyer, who came to Watertown with his family in 
1854; he died here in 1861.  George W. Webb was employed as a clerk 
in mercantile business here for about three years; afterward for over two 
years in Milwaukee; he then went to Eldora, Iowa, engaged in 
agricultural implement business there for two years; then he returned to 
Watertown and learned the telegraph business in 1875; he was located 
one year in La Crosse as operator;  then returned to Watertown, and has 
remained here ever since.  Feb. 4, 1878, he married Lillian L. Gibbs; she 
was born in Iowa; they have one child – Blanche L., born Dec. 23, 1878.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)