Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

G. S. WEBB.  There is no better illustration of the young man in
politics and business than Sheriff G. S. Webb.  He is a son of Hon. 
William and Elizabeth (Dean) Webb, and was born in Grant County on the 
22nd day of December, 1866, and was the fourth boy in a family of seven 
boys and two girls.  "Jack" as he is familiarly called, grew up in 
Williamstown, attending her schools and assisting his father on the 
farm.  When grown he engaged in the leaf tobacco business, and for years
was his father's confidential man in the purchase and shipment of leaf
tobacco.  In 1891 he was appointed deputy Sheriff under J. R. Lemon, who
was then then the High Sheriff of the county and served two years, when 
he resigned to go West.  The next two years he spent in the mining 
regions of Arizona.  Tiring of the rough life and hard labor of that 
far Western country he determined to come home. Getting together all of 
his worldly effects he started on his long journey.  All of the money 
he had been able to get together was less than $500.00, and strange to 
relate, while riding in the car on his way home, in some manner 
inexplicable to him, his lost his pocket book and all of his money.  
Luckily he had a little small change in his pockets and his tickets, and
with this he reached Williamstown.  The next year he and his brother Jim
engaged in the leaf tobacco business, making a nice purchase and selling
it out at a handsome profit.  This was "Jack's" real start in life and 
the next year he was elected to the office of High Sheriff of Grant 
County, defeating a very popular opponent and winning the final election
by more than 350 majority.  He has made one of the best Sheriffs the 
county has ever had, and will not go out of office until the first day 
of January, 1902.  In 1895 he was united in marriage to Miss Maggie 
Turley, at that time of Owen County.  To this union three children
have been born, only two of whom are living.  Last summer Sheriff Webb
erected himself a handsome home on Cynthiana Street, and is now residing
in it with his charming family surrounded by everything that is supposed
to make life happy.  Jack is a fighting Democrat who never lets go until
the battle is won or lost.  He is also an active member of Centurion 
Lodge I.O.O.F.

Webb Dean Turley Lemon
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Owen-KY AZ

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