Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

E. H. WEBB, dealer in dry goods and notions (firm of Chittenden, Northrup & Co.), 
Joliet; was born in Columbia Co., N. Y., May 20, 1844; when he was but 2 years old 
his parents removed to Columbia Co., Wis.; be. received his education in a select 
school at Poynette, Wis., and at the State University at Madison; in February, 1863, 
he enlisted as a private in Co. H, 36th Wis. V. I., and served eight months in the 
army of the Potomac, participating in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania 
Court House, North Anna and Cold Harbor, besides smaller battles and skirmishes; at 
Cold Harbor he was disabled, and while lying in the hospital he received a 
commission as Second Lieutenant of Co. A, 51st Wis. V. I., and was transierred to 
the Western army in Missouri; returning from the war, he entered the dry goods 
business at Portage City, Wis.; he afterward spent three years in business in 
Dakota Territory, and, in 1871, came to Joliet and engaged in his present business. 
He was married May 20, 1874, to Miss Mary CHITTENDEN, of Plainfield, Ill., daughter 
of George N. CHITTENDEN, one of the early settlers of Will Co.; they have two, 
children - Elizabeth W. and Winnifred. Mr. Webb is an active worker in the M. E. 
Church, of which he has been a member for the past eight years.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.