H. Walter Webb (1856-1900) was son of Gen. Year 1856 ( MDCCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar James Watson Webb (1802-1884), a distinguished journalist who was at one time ambassador of the United States to Brazil. General James Watson Webb ( February 8 1802 - June 7 1884) was a newspaper publisher and a New York politician in the Whig Year 1802 ( MDCCCII) was a Common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Webb was a railway executive for the New York Central Railroad under Cornelius Vanderbilt and Chauncey Depew. The New York Central Railroad, known simply as the New York Central in its publicity was a Railroad operating in the Northeastern United States. Cornelius Vanderbilt ( May 27 1794 &ndash January 4 1877) also known by the Sobriquets The Commodore or Chauncey Mitchell Depew ( April 23, 1834 – April 5, 1928) served as a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to
Webb was head of his class in the Columbia College School of Mines (now incorporated into the School of Engineering and Applied Science). History Original charter of 1754 and the establishing of a school of engineering Included in the original charter for Columbia He was a member of the fraternity St. Anthony Hall and while still an undergraduate, he participated in the Orton expedition that ascended the Amazon River almost to its source, and crossing the Andes, he exited South America by way of Peru, returning to the USA by ship. St Anthony Hall, also known as Saint Anthony Hall and The Order of St He then studied law, also at Columbia, passed the bar in 1875, and briefly practiced the profession, which he found unsatisfying. Thereafter he soon became active in Wall Street banking and brokerage. Wall Street is a street in lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. He drifted into the railway business almost by accident through his brother, Dr. William Seward Webb, married to a daughter of William H. Vanderbilt, became interested in the Wagner Palace Car Company which the Vanderbilts controlled. Dr W Seward Webb ( January 31, 1851 - October 29, 1926) was a son of Civil War Gen This article is about the railroad magnate For his grandson the governor of Rhode Island see William Henry Vanderbilt III. When Webster Wagner, the company's president was suddenly crushed between two of his own cars, Dr. Webb became president of the company and invited his brother to join it.
Webb was an advocate of fast railway travel and ran what was then the fastest railway train in the world, averaging nearly 60 miles per hour over 450 miles. In 1893 he made a bold and ultimately true prediction for the next hundred years: By 1993, a traveler will be able to have his breakfast in New York City and his evening meal in Chicago. The City of New York Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States.
Webb lived in Scarborough, New York, was Show Chairman of the Westminster Kennel Club (1880-1882), subscriber to the Blackstone Memorial (1891), and helped dedicate a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus in Central Park (1894). Briarcliff Manor is a village in Westchester County in the state of New York. The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is a two-day benched Conformation show that takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City every year The Blackstone Memorial (1891 was a petition written by William Eugene Blackstone, a Christian restorationist and presented to the President of the United States Christopher Columbus (1451 &ndash May 20 1506 was an Italian Navigator, colonizer Central Park is a large public Urban park in New York City, with about twenty-five million visitors annually
H. Walter Webb retired due to ill health around 1897, and died of tuberculosis or its complications June 18, 1900 at his country residence. Had he remained healthy he would likely have become president of his railroad. He was survived by his wife, Leila Howard Griswald Webb who he had married in 1884 and two sons. [1]
In 1904, Mrs. Webb remarried to the famous society architect Ogden Codman, Jr. who had designed a townhouse for her at 15 E. Ogden Codman Jr ( January 19 1863 - January 8 1951) was a noted American architect and interior decorator and co-author with Edith Wharton 51 St. , opposite St. Patrick's Cathedral, in New York City in 1902. [2] Mr. Codman was co-author with Edith Wharton of the highly influential and still in print book The Decoration of Houses. [3]
References
- ^ "Death of H. Walter Webb" The New York Times, June 191900. Retrieved Oct. 20, 2007. This article contains additional material on Mr. Webb, and the New York Times archives in general have a considerable information on him.
- ^ Drake, Stuart A. 1997. "Drawings from the Office of Ogden Codman, Jr. " Old Time New England page 60. Retrieved October 31, 2007 from http://www.spnea.org/resources/articles/pdf77.pdf
- ^ Retrieved October 31 2007 from http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?id=DLDecArts.DecHouseWhar -- this site contains page images from the book.
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