Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

JOHN WEBB, retired from business; Beardstown; was born near 
Manchester, England, Dec. 9, 1813, and came to the United 
States with his parents in 1818, who settled in Baltimore, 
Md. He learned the trade of a machinist, and afterward 
worked in the shops of the B.& O.R.R. Co. He worked upon 
marine engines, and for the Savage Manufacturing Company, 
till 1838, in which year he went to Springfield, Ill., and 
from there to Petersburg. In 1844, he came to Cass County, 
and started a shop about three miles from Virginia, for the 
manufacture of Page's portable circular saws, but his 
business increased to such an extent that he was compelled 
to seek better facilities, and he moved to Beardstown, 
where he erected a foundry and machine shop, running the 
same till 1856, when his works were burned out, with a loss 
of $17,000; no insurance. He rebuilt, however, and 
continued the business until 1866, when he sold to Ebaugh & 
Quinlan. He afterward went into the manufacture of wagons, 
which he continued till 1875, when he retired, leaving the 
business in the hands of his son and son-in-law. He married 
in Baltimore, in 1834, Miss Eliza A. Kahaley.

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