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Joe Webster is the son of Henry Webster, a native of England, who was born in 1813 and was married in that country, where he lived until about 1840. Then he emigrated to America and settled in Philadelphia, at which place he married his second wife, formerly Miss R. E. Lamborn, a native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Jonathan and Rachel Lamborn. They were the parents of three sons and one daughter, three of whom are still living, two in Pennsylvania, and one, the principal of this sketch, in Arkansas. Mr. Webster was engaged in the manufacturing business in Pennsylvania, until his death, in 1871. His wife still survives him and is now in her seventy-seventh year. Joe Webster was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on October 28, 1843. In 1866 he came to Arkansas and located at Pine Bluff, where he lived about one year and went to Arkansas County, where he was married one year later to Mary A. Montgomery, of Tennessee nativity, and a daughter of James G. and Rebecca J. Montgomery. They have a family of nine children: Effie, Frank, Delia, Birtie and Edna (twins), Jennie, Harry, Louie and Ernest. Mr. Webster owns a fine farm of half a section of land, with forty acres under cultivation and well stocked, and is also engaged in the mercantile business. Though starting with but $500 he now carries a stock of goods invoicing $3,000, all of which he has made since coming to this State. He filled the office of county surveyor for four years, and has been the postmaster of Bayou Meto for twelve years. Mr. and Mrs. Webster are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in which they take an active part.