son Centenary College, at Indianola, Warren County, Iowa, attended there about two years, and then for two years was in the State University of Iowa, the law department, from which he graduated in 1875, in a class of about 110 graduates. He was at once admitted to the bar of Iowa, and is now a valuable legal practitioner of Story County. He is a business-like and painstaking lawyer, is concise in argument and well read, and has a large and constantly increasing practice. He married Miss Frances Seal, a native of Iowa, who received her education in the common schools of that State, and two children were born to this union: Cecil D. and Ralph C. Mr. Webb has always been identified with ,the Republican party, and cast his first presidential vote for Gen. U. S. Grant, during his second adminstration. He has always been a stalwart Republican in principle and is active in his county. He has prosecuted the true principles of Republicanism with vigor, and has aided very materially in the elevation of local politics in his place of residence. Mr. Webb is well and favorably known throughout his county, and in adjacent counties as a rising, aggressive, energetic and capable gentleman. He is the present nominee for county attorney of Story County, and received the unanimous nomina tion at the county convention on June 14, 1890, which is practically an election, since Story County is overwhelmingly Republican. His legal practice extends over Story and Polk Counties, and he is highly endorsed by his friends and brother attorneys in Story County. Mr. Webb is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Nevada Lodge No. 99, and is also a member of Slater Lodge No. 384, I. O. O. F., at Slater, Iowa. He has occupied all the different chairs in the lodge, and was the representative of District No. 77, to the Grand Lodge during the years of 1888-89. Mr. and Mrs. Webb are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and have always contributed of their means to the support of all laudable and benevolent institutions which, have been presented for their consideration. Mr. Webb emigrated to Story County from Polk County in the year 1853, when the country was in its primitive state of development and very sparsely settled. He related that when he first came to this county he could almost count the settlers by name, so few in number were they, and many and rapid have been the improvements made since then. The great development of the county, Mr. Webb says, is attributable to the great agricultural resources, the excellent system of drainage and farming which have been inaugurated by the farming community. He has a valuable law library of 175 volumes, making a very excellent, complete and practical library. He has a nice home in Slater, Iowa, and surrounded by an intelligent family, and with his vigorous, progressive duties, lives in the enjoyment of peace and contentment.
Dr. A. S. Welch, first president of the Iowa Agricultural College, died at Pasadena, Cal., March 14, 1889. He was born in East Hampton, Conn., April 12, 1821, and at the age of eighteen years emigrated to Michigan, where he prepared himself to enter the university of that State at the academy at Romeo. He was admitted to the university in 1843, and graduated in 1846. During the last two years of his course he had charge of the preparatory department of the university, where by successful work he laid the foundation of his great reputation as a teacher. In 1847 he was elected principal of the school at Jonesville-the first union or graded-school established in Michigan. So marked was his success in the conduct of this school, and so strongly did he impress him-