JOHN M. WEBBER,
a prosperous farmer of Jesup,
was born in Prussia, Germany, June 16,
1834. He is a son of Nicholas and Catherine
(Weis) Webber, both of
whom were natives of Germany, where they lived and died in the
Catholic faith. Nicholas died in 1882, at
the age of eighty -three years; his wife died in 1866. Nicholas Webber was a farmer and a musician. He was
well educated, especially in music. He served three years as a musician in the
German army, and also carried on a mercantile business for many years in his
native town, and was in good circumstances at the time of his death. Nicholas was
a son of Theodore and Anna M. (Haller) Webber, both natives of Germany. Catherine Webber was a native of Holland. Nicholas and Catherine Webber were
the parents of eleven children, as follows— Theodore, a farmer in Buchanan
county, Iowa; Mathias, a farmer in Prussia; Franz, a farmer and wagon-maker in
Prussia; John M., the subject of this sketch; Charles, a farmer in Black Hawk
county, Iowa; John, a farmer in Black Hawk county, Iowa, who died when
fifty-one years of age; Frederick W., a farmer in Prussia; Nicholas, a teacher
in Prussia; William, a farmer in Buchanan county, Iowa; Mary, single, in
Prussia; Maggie, wife of Paul Nibel, a farmer in Black
Hawk county, Iowa.
John M.
Webber, the fourth child of his parents, \vas reared in his native town, and
received a common-school education. His early life was spent on the farm and in
his father's store. He remained with his father and gave him the benefit of his
labors until he was twenty-two years of age. In 1856 he came to America on the Robert Dale, an American
sailing-vessel, which was forty-nine days in making the trip to New York. Mr. Webber immediately came West, locating at Lockport, Will county, Ill., and spent that winter, in
chopping cord wood and getting out railroad ties. He then hired out by the
month to work on a farm. He put in two years in this way and then rented
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