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Tracy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">William James Sheridan</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">January 31, 1851<br /><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">October 29, 1926<span style="display:none">(1926-10-29)</span> (aged 75)<br /><a href="/wiki/Shelburne,_Vermont" title="Shelburne, Vermont">Shelburne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Eliza_Osgood_Vanderbilt_Webb" title="Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb">Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1883)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Frederica Vanderbilt Webb<br /><a href="/wiki/James_Watson_Webb_II" title="James Watson Webb II">James Watson Webb II</a><br />William Seward Webb, Jr.<br />Vanderbilt Webb</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Watson_Webb" title="James Watson Webb">James Watson Webb</a><br />Laura Virginia Cram</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University_College_of_Physicians_and_Surgeons" title="Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons">Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Entrepreneur, financier, gentleman farmer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WilliamSewardWebb.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="William Seward Webb's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/WilliamSewardWebb.svg/128px-WilliamSewardWebb.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="42" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/WilliamSewardWebb.svg/192px-WilliamSewardWebb.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/WilliamSewardWebb.svg/256px-WilliamSewardWebb.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="715" data-file-height="235" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Seward Webb</b> (January 31, 1851 – October 29, 1926)<sup id="cite_ref-DrWebbObit1926_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DrWebbObit1926-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a businessman, and <a href="/wiki/Inspector_general" title="Inspector general">inspector general</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a> <a href="/wiki/Militia" title="Militia">militia</a> with the rank of <a href="/wiki/Colonel" title="Colonel">colonel</a>. He was a founder and former president of the <a href="/wiki/Sons_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Sons of the American Revolution">Sons of the American Revolution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-YearBook1906_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YearBook1906-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Seward_Webb&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Webb was born on January 31, 1851, to <a href="/wiki/James_Watson_Webb" title="James Watson Webb">James Watson Webb</a> and Laura Virginia (<a href="/wiki/N%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Née">née</a> Cram) Webb (1826–1890).<sup id="cite_ref-Reynolds1914_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reynolds1914-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among his many siblings were <a href="/wiki/Alexander_S._Webb" title="Alexander S. Webb">Alexander Stewart Webb</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-ASWOBit1911_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ASWOBit1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a noted Civil War general who married <a href="/wiki/Anna_Remsen_Webb" class="mw-redirect" title="Anna Remsen Webb">Anna Elizabeth Remsen</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-Moffat1904_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moffat1904-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/H._Walter_Webb" title="H. Walter Webb">Henry Walter Webb</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-HWWObit1900_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HWWObit1900-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also a railway executive who married <a href="/wiki/Leila_Griswold_Webb_Codman" class="mw-redirect" title="Leila Griswold Webb Codman">Amelia Howard Griswold</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-HWWWill1900_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HWWWill1900-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and George Creighton Webb, a <a href="/wiki/Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School">Yale Law School</a> graduate and attorney in New York with Saunders, Webb & Worcester who did not marry. </p><p>He studied <a href="/wiki/Medicine" title="Medicine">medicine</a> in <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> and <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>. Returning to America, he entered the <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University_College_of_Physicians_and_Surgeons" title="Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons">Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons</a> and graduated from there in 1875. In 1881, he married <a href="/wiki/Eliza_Osgood_Vanderbilt_Webb" title="Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb">Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt</a>, the daughter of <a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Vanderbilt" title="William Henry Vanderbilt">William Henry Vanderbilt</a>. For several years Webb practiced medicine; then forsook the profession for <a href="/wiki/Finance" title="Finance">finance</a> at the behest of his wife's family, establishing the <a href="/wiki/Wall_Street" title="Wall Street">Wall Street</a> firm of W. S. Webb & Co.<sup id="cite_ref-DrWebbObit1926_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DrWebbObit1926-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Seward_Webb&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1883, Webster Wagner, the president of the Wagner Palace Car Company, was crushed between two of his own railroad cars. William Vanderbilt owned a controlling interest in the company, and asked his new son-in-law to take over the firm. William Seward invited his brother <a href="/wiki/H._Walter_Webb" title="H. Walter Webb">H. Walter Webb</a> to join him, which started them both on careers in the railroad business. The Wagner Palace Car Company was subsequently merged with the <a href="/wiki/Pullman_Company" title="Pullman Company">Pullman Company</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DrWebbObit1926_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DrWebbObit1926-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Webb later became president of the Fulton Chain Railway Company, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fulton_Navigation_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fulton Navigation Company (page does not exist)">Fulton Navigation Company</a> and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Raquette_Lake_Transportation_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Raquette Lake Transportation Company (page does not exist)">Raquette Lake Transportation Company</a>. He was the builder and President of the <a href="/wiki/Mohawk_and_Malone_Railway" title="Mohawk and Malone Railway">Mohawk and Malone Railway</a>. His railroads were instrumental in opening the <a href="/wiki/Adirondacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Adirondacks">Adirondacks</a> to the tourism rush of the mid-to-late 19th century and beyond.<sup id="cite_ref-DrWebbObit1926_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DrWebbObit1926-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_service">Public service</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Seward_Webb&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Public service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Webb served as <a href="/wiki/Inspector_general#United_States" title="Inspector general">inspector general</a> of rifle practice for the <a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a> <a href="/wiki/Militia" title="Militia">militia</a> with the rank of <a href="/wiki/Colonel_(United_States)" title="Colonel (United States)">colonel</a>. A <a href="/wiki/Republican_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican (United States)">Republican</a>, he won election to the <a href="/wiki/Vermont_House_of_Representatives" title="Vermont House of Representatives">Vermont House of Representatives</a> in 1896 and 1898.<sup id="cite_ref-DrWebbObit1926_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DrWebbObit1926-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1902, he intended to campaign for the Republican nomination for <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Vermont" title="Governor of Vermont">Governor of Vermont</a>, but left the race in favor of <a href="/wiki/Percival_Clement" class="mw-redirect" title="Percival Clement">Percival Clement</a>. Clement lost the nomination to <a href="/wiki/John_G._McCullough" title="John G. McCullough">John G. McCullough</a>, who went on to win the general election.<sup id="cite_ref-DrWebbObit1926_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DrWebbObit1926-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Seward_Webb&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:5th_avenue_-_54th_NY_1885_Albert_Levy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/5th_avenue_-_54th_NY_1885_Albert_Levy.jpg/220px-5th_avenue_-_54th_NY_1885_Albert_Levy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/5th_avenue_-_54th_NY_1885_Albert_Levy.jpg/330px-5th_avenue_-_54th_NY_1885_Albert_Levy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/5th_avenue_-_54th_NY_1885_Albert_Levy.jpg/440px-5th_avenue_-_54th_NY_1885_Albert_Levy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="606" /></a><figcaption>680 Fifth Avenue mansion</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1883, he married <a href="/wiki/Eliza_Osgood_Vanderbilt_Webb" title="Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb">Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt</a>, daughter of railroad magnate <a href="/wiki/William_H._Vanderbilt" class="mw-redirect" title="William H. Vanderbilt">William H. Vanderbilt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EOVBobit1936_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EOVBobit1936-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were the parents of:<sup id="cite_ref-DrWebbObit1926_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DrWebbObit1926-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Frederica Webb, married <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Pulitzer" title="Ralph Pulitzer">Ralph Pulitzer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DrWebbObit1926_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DrWebbObit1926-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Watson_Webb_II" title="James Watson Webb II">J. Watson Webb II</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-JWWObit_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JWWObit-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> married <a href="/wiki/Electra_Havemeyer_Webb" title="Electra Havemeyer Webb">Electra Havemeyer Webb</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>William Seward Webb Jr. (1887–1956), married Gertrude Emily Gaynor, daughter of <a href="/wiki/William_Jay_Gaynor" title="William Jay Gaynor">William Jay Gaynor</a>.</li> <li>Vanderbilt Seward Webb (1891–1956), name partner of <a href="/wiki/Patterson_Belknap_Webb_%26_Tyler" title="Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler">Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler</a>, married <a href="/wiki/Aileen_Osborn_Webb" title="Aileen Osborn Webb">Aileen Osborn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-craftcouncil_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craftcouncil-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>He died on October 29, 1926, and was survived by his wife, three sons, and one daughter.<sup id="cite_ref-DrWebbObit1926_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DrWebbObit1926-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legacy">Legacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Seward_Webb&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Webbs lived for thirty years at 680 Fifth Avenue, New York. This house, a wedding gift from <a href="/wiki/William_H._Vanderbilt" class="mw-redirect" title="William H. Vanderbilt">William H. Vanderbilt</a> to his daughter, was sold in 1913 to <a href="/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller" title="John D. Rockefeller">John D. Rockefeller</a>. The Webb property at <a href="/wiki/Shelburne,_Vermont" title="Shelburne, Vermont">Shelburne, Vermont</a>, was created from more than thirty separate farms on the shores of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Champlain" title="Lake Champlain">Lake Champlain</a> and is known today as <a href="/wiki/Shelburne_Farms" title="Shelburne Farms">Shelburne Farms</a>. The property is a <a href="/wiki/National_Historic_Landmark" title="National Historic Landmark">National Historic Landmark</a>, and one of the main concert sites of the <a href="/wiki/Vermont_Mozart_Festival" title="Vermont Mozart Festival">Vermont Mozart Festival</a>. The former Webb estate has stunning views and some of the grandest barns of any <a href="/wiki/Gilded_Age" title="Gilded Age">Gilded Age</a> property. </p><p>A great horseman, Dr. Webb had a large collection of carriages, many of which are on display today at the <a href="/wiki/Shelburne_Museum" title="Shelburne Museum">Shelburne Museum</a>. The Vanderbilt Webb's other country estate was an Adirondack <a href="/wiki/Great_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Camp">Great Camp</a> named <a href="/w/index.php?title=NeHaSane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="NeHaSane (page does not exist)">NeHaSane</a>, a game preserve of some 200,000 acres (800 km<sup>2</sup>), most of which was later donated to the State of New York to become part of the <a href="/wiki/Adirondack_Park" title="Adirondack Park">Adirondack Park</a>. The town of <a href="/wiki/Webb,_New_York" title="Webb, New York">Webb, New York</a> in the park is named after him. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Published_works">Published works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Seward_Webb&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Published works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cihm_16429">California and Alaska and over the Canadian Pacific Railway</a> (1890)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57270196">Historical notes of the organization of societies of sons of the American Revolution, with a list of national and state officers, and illustrated with designs showing the insignia of the order, form of application for membership, certificates, etc.</a> (1890)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/shelburnefarmsst00webb">Shelburne Farms Stud: of English Hackneys, harness and saddle horses, ponies and trotters</a> (1893)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Seward_Webb&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2011-04-07</span></span>. <q>Chairman of Webb Lynch, Inc., general insurance brokers at 99 John.....</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=J.+Watson+Webb%2C+Sportsman%2C+Dies.+Ex-Polo+Star+Named+in+%2734+to+All-Time+U.+S.+Team.+Insurance+Executive+Here&rft.date=1960-03-05&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1960%2F03%2F05%2Farchives%2Fj-watson-webb-sportsman-dies-expolo-star-named-in-34-to-alltime-u-s.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Seward+Webb" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0B10F93B541A7A93C2AB178AD95F448685F9">"Mrs. J. Watson Webb, 72, Dead; Co-Founder of Vermont Museum; Started Shelburne Institution With Husband in 1947. Aided Red Cross in 2 Wars"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. November 20, 1960<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-10-09</span></span>. <q>Mrs. Electra Havemeyer Webb of 740 Park Avenue, New York, and Shelburne, widow of J. 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href="http://www.craftcouncil.org/magazine/article/who-was-aileen-osborn-webb">"Who Was Aileen Osborn Webb?"</a>. <i>American Craft Council</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=American+Craft+Council&rft.atitle=Who+Was+Aileen+Osborn+Webb%3F&rft.date=2011-07-25&rft.aulast=Lovelace&rft.aufirst=Joyce&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.craftcouncil.org%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2Fwho-was-aileen-osborn-webb&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Seward+Webb" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Seward_Webb&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27188993">William Seward Webb</a> at <a href="/wiki/Find_a_Grave" title="Find a Grave">Find a Grave</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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