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- DR. GEORGE H. WEBSTER has attained a wide reputation as a
- clairvoyant physician and healer in the city of Janesville,
Rock County. He has his office at the corner of North Jackson
and West Milwaukee streets, and is now, at the very prime of
his manly powers, commanding a good practice, and accomplishing
many strange and remarkable cures.
- Dr. WEBSTER was born at Spring Lake, Mich., Feb. 28, 1860.
- His parents, John and Mary (PEDLEY) WEBSTER, were born in
Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, England, and had a family of six sons
and one daughter, three now living. Alice is the wife of C. H.
PIERCE, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Tom and George H. have their
home in Janesville. John WEBSTER, who was a farmer in England,
emigrated to this country in 1849, finding a home in Spring Lake,
Mich., where he engaged in the lumber business. He was expert
with machinery, fond of the railroad, and after
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- he had been selling lumber for some fifteen years secured
a place as engineer on the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee
railroad, which he held for many years. He was a man of good
character, and a devout Christian, was always in his place at
church, and loved the sanctuary. He was a deacon in the Baptist
Church, of which he and his wife were members. He died at Spring
Lake, Jan. 17, 1895, at the age of sixty-nine years, eight months
and fourteen days. His wife died August 2, 1890 aged sixty-four
years, three months and twenty-six days. His father lived and
died in England, reaching a ripe old age, and had a large family.
His wife's father was also English born and bred, reached a great
age, and was the father of some sixteen or seventeen children.
- Dr. WEBSTER spent the first ten years of his life at Spring
Lake, Mich., where he made a fair
- start in the local school. Then he left home and came to
Oregon, Wis., to live. He made the most of the advantages afforded
by the Oregon schools, and then attended the Northwestern Business
College, at Madison. When he had completed his schooling he made
his way to Chetek, Barron Co., Wis., where he took up a homestead
claim of sixty-two acres of exceptionally valuable land, making
his home there for ten years, and finally disposing of his real
estate. He returned to Oregon to become a clairvoyant physician,
having developed strange powers in that direction, and a multitude
of people have implicit faith in his abilities. He had an office
in Madison for a year, and then moved to Albany, this State,
where he spent six years. There he was married, Nov. 23, 1892,
to Miss Mary ALVERSON, who as born June 21, 1876, and is a daughter
of Thomas and Susan (CARLE) ALVERSON. Dr. WEBSTER is a Mason,
and belongs to Albany Lodge, No. 36, A.F. & A.M. He is also
a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, with which his wife
is associated. He has united with the fraternal insurance orders
of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of the Maccabees.
The WEBSTER family has a record of unusual vitality, and many
of its representatives have attained great age. A great-uncle
of the Doctor, Tom WEBSTER, lived to be one hundred and six years
old and was able to read without glasses at that age.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 704-705; lithograph from same book.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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