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Vol. 5, p. 1816 Most punctilious preliminary discipline, natural predilection, deep humanitarian spirit and successful practical experience have given to Doctor WEBB distinct precedence as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Southern Oklahoma, and he controls a large and important general practice which attests his professional skill and his secure place in popular confidence and esteem. He maintains his residence and office in the Village of Berwyn and his practice extends throughout the wide area of country tributary to this thriving town of Carter County. Dr. James William Webb was born at Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee, on the 26th of February, 1882, and is a son of James L. and Sallie (LAWSON) Webb, was reared and educated in his native state and there he continued his residence until 1891, when he removed with his family to Texas and purchased a tract of land in Eastland County, where he has since continued successful operations as a farmer and stockgrower, his home being in the Village of Cisco. He is a democrat in politics, a broad-minded and public spirited citizen, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, as was also his wife, who was summoned to the life eternal in 1903, and who is survived by eight children: Charles is a confectioner and in engaged in business in the City of Wichita, Kansas; Doctor Webb of this review was the next in order of birth; John is a prosperous farmer near Quanah, Texas; Henry, who maintains his residence at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is a traveling commercial salesman; Mollie remains at the paternal home; Madison is engaged in farming and stockgrowing near Quanah, Texas; and Car and Diona remain with their father and are attending the Cisco High School. Doctor Webb was about nine years old at the time of the family removal to Texas, and he continued his studies in the public schools at Cisco, that state, until his graduation in the high school in 1899. In consonance with his ambitious purpose and well formulated plans he thereafter attended the medical department of the University of Nashville, Tennessee, where he continued his studies during two terms. He then entered the Memphis Hospital Medical College, in the City of Memphis, that state, and in this excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1903 and with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Soon after his graduation Doctor Webb engaged in the practice of his profession at Cisco, Texas, where he continued his successful work until 1908, when he came to the new State of Oklahoma and established his home Berwyn, where he has since continued his labors as a physician and surgeon and where his extensive practice is one of representative order. He established also a drug store in the village, and of this he continued the proprietor from 1909 until July, 1915, when he sold the stock and business to his father-in-law, Dr. John O. GILLIAM, concerning whom individual mention is made on other pages of this publication. The doctor is actively identified with the Carter County Medical Society and the Oklahoma State Medical society. Though inflexible in his allegiance to the democratic party, Doctor Webb has had no time or inclination for the activities of practical politics, but his civic loyalty prompted him to give most efficient service when he was chosen clerk for Carter County of Rod District No. 11. His ancient-craft Masonic affiliation is with Berwyn Lodge No. 59, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and in Indian Consistory No. 2, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, at McAlester, he has received the thirty-second degree. In Oklahoma City he is affiliated with India Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and he holds membership in Berwyn Camp, Woodmen of the World. The doctor is a scion of a family that is of English lineage, the original American progenitors having settled in North Carolina in the Colonial era of our National history. At Berwyn, in 1908, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Webb to Miss Lulu Maud GILLIAM, daughter of Dr. John O. Gilliam, of whom specific mention is made elsewhere in this volume and who conducts the well equipped drug store at Berwyn. Doctor and Mrs. Webb have three children, whose names and respective years of birth are as follows: Theresa Amelia, 1910; James William, Jr., 1912; and John, 1915. Transcribed by: Geraldine Olson KING, July 19, 1999. SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The American Historical Society, 1916).