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ALFRED FRANCIS WEBSTER
WEBSTER, ALFRED FRANCIS, Real Estate and Investments, Los Angeles, California, was born at Mankato, Minnesota, the son of Sanford Webster and Phennettia (Washburn) Webster. He is a descendant of Daniel Webster, reckoned, perhaps, the greatest of American orators. He married Anna Woodbury, Jan. 28, 1889, at his former home in Nebraska. There is one child, Hazel Webster.
Mr. Webster spent his early days on a farm, receiving his education meanwhile. He was graduated from the Hastings, Neb., High School, June 30, 1885, and entered Hastings College, graduating two years later. He entered a wholesale grocery house, but at the end of a year was compelled, on account of ill health, to abandon this. He went into Wyoming and became a cowboy. After two years he went to Kansas as manager of a large ranch. Two years later he married and decided to go into business in Arkansas. This proving unprofitable he gave it up to enter the wholesale department of Marshall Field & Co., Chicago. While so engaged he mastered the art of photography and at the end of a year opened a studio in Beaver City, Neb., where he became prominent in politics, being for a number of years a member of the Republican State Central Committee as Secretary and Chairman. His handling of vacation excursions to Colorado and the Black Hills caused his selection by the Burlington to take charge of excursion business out of Omaha. Later, going to Chicago, he became a member of the Boston and Los Angeles Excursion Co. He resigned to go into real estate in 1903, at Denver, Colo., and in 1904 at Los Angeles and Ocean Park, Cal. He belongs to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, which he organized and of which he was the first president. He is a Mason, Elk and K. of P.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 565,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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