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Webb, Charles

soldier, state legislator, was born Feb. 13, 1724, in Stamford, Conn. He was a member of the Connecticut legislature in 1758, and was rechosen twenty-three times. He died after 1794.

WEBB, CHARLES HENRY-John Paul -journalist, author, was born Jan. 24, 1834, in Rouse's Point, N. Y. He is a journalist now living at Nantucket very popular as a humorist in the earlier part of his career. He is the author of Liffith Lank; St. Twel'mo'; John Paul's Book; Parodies in Prose and Verse; and Vagrom Verse.

WEBB, MRS. FRANCES ISABEL [CARRIE], journalist, author, was born in 1857 in New Jersey. She was a magazinist of New York city; and the author of A Tiff with the Tiffins; Gala Day Books; and A Breath of Suspicion. She died in 1895.

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