City: Chattanooga
COLBURN, Webster J., park commissioner; born Forrestville, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., November 26, 1840; son Albert Thomas and Betsy (Older) COLBURN; paternal grandfather Lorin COLBURN, paternal grandmother Harriet (Story) COLBURN; educated Wisconsin University; married Ada E. BRABSON, Sept. 13, 1866; member Chattanooga Lodge No. 199, F. & A. M., Military Order Loyal Legion; Society Army of the Cumberland and Potomac; Commissioner and Secretary Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park; Private Company K, First Wisconsin Infantry; Sergeant First Sergeant and Second Lieutenant Third Wisconsin Battery; Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, United States Volunteers; Brevet Major United States Volunteers; served five years in Union Army during Civil War; participated in the battles of Perryville, Ky., Stone River, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, and was in various minor engagements; resident of Chattanooga since 1867; proprietor of Insurance Agency of W. J. COLBURN & Co., of Chattanooga; communicant St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
