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Centennial History of Grant County, Indiana 1812-1912, Vol. II
Compiled from the Records of the Grant County Historical Society,
Archives of the County, Data of Personal Interviews, and
Other Authentic Sources of Local Information
pub. Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York - 1914


      Pg. 679-680

      GEORGE WEBSTER, JR.

      Before GEORGE WEBSTER, JR. settled down to the banking business in real
      earnest he tries his luck at many and varied business enterprises, in all
      of which he realized a fair degree of success, but in none of which he was
      entirely contented. But his ten years experience in banking when he first
      launched out in independent life seemed never to be forgotten, and in 1890
      he forsook all other interests, returned to Marion, the town in which he
      was born and reared, and identified himself with the Marion State Bank as
      cashier, a position he held for twenty-two years. At that time he sold his
      banking interests and retired from the business.

      MR. WEBSTER was born on the 28th of October, 1849, at the family home on
      the corner of Fifth and Washington Streets, Marion, a son of GEORGE W. and
      MARIA J. (McKINNEY) WEBSTER, both now deceased. Concerning the father
      extended mention is made elsewhere in this work in a memorial sketch dedi-
      cated to him, so that further reference to the parents of MR. WEBSTER is
      unnecessary at this point.

      GEORGE WEBSTER attended when a boy the public schools, and when he was
      nineteen accepted his first position - a clerkship in a grocery store. It
      was thus that he earned the money to pay his way through the Bryant and
      Stratton Business College in Chicago, from which he was graduated after
      pursuing a full course of business training in that pioneer and still
      famous business institution. Returning to Marion, he became deputy county
      clerk, a position he continued to fill for three years. He engaged in the
      grocery trade when his services with the county were ended, but the
      venture did not prove an attractive one with him and he soon sold his
      interest and went to Manistee, Michigan, where he entered the employ of a
      large lumber concern as bookkeeper. When he once more returned to Marion,
      in 1879, he was appointed cashier of Sweetzer's Bank, a position he
      continued to fill for something like ten years, and he then went to
      Chicago, becoming interested there in the manufacture of leather goods.
      For two and a half years he was thus occupied, and at the end of the time
      disposed of his interest and, locating in Wabash, Indiana, purchased the
      electric light plant, which he remodeled, putting the plant in excellent
      shape and continued to operate it for eighteen months. It was at the close
      of that period that he once more retraced his steps to Marion, here buying
      an interest in the Marion State Bank and becoming its cashier, a position
      he continued to fill until his retirement from business in March, 1913. He
      has earned an excellent reputation for ability in finance in the banking
      circles of the state, and is reckoned among the most dependable men of the
      city, and one whose integrity may not be questioned.

      On the fourteenth of February, 1884, Mr. Webster was married in Wabash,
      Indiana, to Miss MARIE DAUGHTERY, a daughter of JOSIAH DAUGHTERY, and they
      have one son, LAWRENCE B. WEBSTER. MR. WEBSTER is a stanch and active Re-
      publican, and has done good work in the interests of the party whenever
      the occasion presented itself. The cause of education is one that has also
      had his special interest, and he was a member of the Marion school board
      for nine years, serving it in the positions of president and treasurer.
      He takes a pardonable pride in the educational system of the city which is
      his home, and his infulence in connection with the moral conditions of the
      community is a most praiseworthy one. He was a member of the library board
      that was instrumental in securing for Marion its present magnificent lib-
      rary building, and his honest endeavors for the advancement of the city
      has been felt along every possible line. Fraternally he is associated with
      the Knights of Pythias, Grant Lodge, No. 103, of which he was the first
      chancellor commander and was for five years grand treasurer for the state
      of Indiana. He is at the present time a member of the Board of Trustees
      of the Indiana Boys' School, located at Plainfield, Indiana

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