Webb, Frederick T.

WEBB

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 1/27/2009 at 13:38:30

Frederick T. Webb

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.61, Council Bluffs)
Rev. Frederick T. Webb, Council Bluffs, came to Council Bluffs in 1875, from the Theological School at Davenport, Iowa. He was born in England in 1850. His parents came to Philadelphia when he was one year old. He entered Griswold College at Davenport in 1868; graduated in 1872. He then took a three years' course in the Theological Seminary. When he took charge of St. Paul's Parish, in Council Bluffs, in 1875, it numbered fifty communicant, but now has one hundred and seventy-five - a goodly increase in so short a time. Mr. Webb is an indefatigable worker, and has been instrumental in establishing twelve churches in this Diocese. He was married in Davenport, in 1874, to Miss Laura Bell Gillette. They have one child living - Ada, aged two years. In 1881, lost their only son - Frederick Lee, aged six years. Mr. Webb is a Mason of high standing, belonging to the Bluff City Lodge, Star Chapter and Ivanhoe Commandery. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Iowa, the Trustees of Funds and Donations, and is also a Trustee of Griswold College. He is Dean of the Southwestern Convocation.