{"id":13800,"date":"2014-06-08T00:56:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T05:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=13800"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:00:10","slug":"webb-alonzo-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/webb-alonzo-c\/","title":{"rendered":"WEBB, Alonzo C."},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor\u00a0ALONZO C. WEBB<\/strong>. Inheriting from his mother artistic tastes and\u00a0talent, and from \u00a0is father an ardent love of nature in all her varied forms,\u00a0Professor\u00a0Alonzo C. WEBB<\/strong>, supervisor of drawing in the public schools of\u00a0Nashville, is widely and favorably known as an artist, an ornithologist, and as\u00a0a lecturer on birds, their habits and habitat. His keen powers of observation\u00a0have made him familiar with the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air,\u00a0and his lectures and writings have aroused an interest that has led to the\u00a0creation of state laws destined to protect the lives of birds and animals. A son\u00a0of\u00a0Hannibal WEBB<\/strong>\u00a0he was born in Chariton, Lucas county, Iowa, of pioneer stock.<\/p>\n

His paternal grandfather,\u00a0Acahel WEBB<\/strong>, was born in North Carolina, but\u00a0further than that little is known of his early life. He must surely have had a\u00a0strong liking for frontier life, for when a young man, in the early part of the\u00a0nineteenth century, he migrated to Tennessee, settling in Warren county as a\u00a0pioneer. A few years later, accompanied by his family, he went on a flat boat\u00a0down the Cumberland and Ohio rivers to southern Illinois, which was then in its\u00a0primitive condition, with \u00a0settlements few and far between. Again seized by the\u00a0wanderlust, he started westward with his wife and children, pushing his way\u00a0onward to Missouri, where he spent his remaining days, dying while yet a\u00a0comparatively young man. His wife, whose maiden name was\u00a0Betsey LEAKY<\/strong>, was born\u00a0near Huntsville, Alabama, where her father was a wealthy planter. Left a widow\u00a0with a large family to care for, and with exceedingly limited means, she proved\u00a0equal to the occasion, rearing her children to habits of industry, and keeping\u00a0them together until they were all grown, married, and had good homes of their\u00a0own. She spent her closing years with her children, passing away at a ripe old age.<\/p>\n

Hannibal WEBB<\/strong>, one of the older children of the parental household, was born in McMinnville, Warren county, Tennessee, and was reared to agricultural\u00a0pursuits. Going while a young man to Iowa, which was then on the extreme western frontier, he lived for awhile in Jefferson county, from there moving with ox\u00a0teams to Lucas county, in the southwestern part of the state. At that early day there were no railroads west of the Mississippi, the nearest market places being\u00a0at points on the Missouri and Des Moines rivers. Nearly all of western Iowa was then owned by the government, and deer and other kinds of game were plentiful,\u00a0roaming at will through the country. He bought a tract of wild land, and was there employed in improving it until 1867, when he returned to Jefferson county,\u00a0bought a partly improved farm, on which he subsequently lived and labored until his death, at the age of sixty-eight years. He married\u00a0Mary Jane HOOPES<\/strong>, who was\u00a0born in western Ohio, a daughter of\u00a0Elijah and Eliza (Armstrong) HOOPES.<\/strong>\u00a0She died at the age of fifty years, leaving six children, as follows:Alice, Alonzo C., Lizzie C., Emma, Luella,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Lottie.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a boy and youth\u00a0Alonzo C. WEBB<\/strong>\u00a0received excellent educational advantages, attending first the public schools, later continuing his studies at different academical institutions, completing them at the Western Normal College, in Bushnell, Illinois. Thus equipped for his future career,\u00a0Professor WEBB<\/strong>\u00a0came to Nashville and established an Art Institute, and has since remained in this city, for the past twenty years having held the responsible position of supervisor of drawing and penmanship in the public schools, a record of service that bespeaks\u00a0in no uncertain terms of his artistic and executive qualifications and ability.<\/p>\n

Not only an artist, a naturalist, and an ornithologist, the Professor takes a deep interest in everything pertaining to agriculture, and is known as a scientific and progressive farmer, his estate of four hundred acres, situated five miles out from the city, being carried on after the most approved modern methods.<\/p>\n

Professor WEBB<\/strong>\u00a0married, December, 1884,\u00a0Ellen HANOR<\/strong>, who was born near Bowling Green, Kentucky, a daughter of\u00a0Henry and Susanna HANOR<\/strong>. Four children have been born of the union of\u00a0Professor and Mrs. WEBB<\/strong>, namely:\u00a0Alonzo C<\/strong>. and\u00a0Hanor A.<\/strong>, twins;\u00a0Susanna<\/strong>, and\u00a0Ellenna<\/strong>. Fraternally\u00a0Professor WEBB<\/strong>\u00a0is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons; of the Knights of Pythias; and of the Improved Order of Bed Men. He likewise belongs to the Nashville Board of Trade. Religiously he is a communicant at the Methodist Episcopal church, and\u00a0Mrs. WEBB<\/strong>\u00a0and the children are members of the Baptist church.<\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0Hale, Will T, and Dixon L. Merritt.\u00a0A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities<\/em>. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Company, 1913. Volume 4, pg. 855-856.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor\u00a0ALONZO C. WEBB. Inheriting from his mother artistic tastes and\u00a0talent, and from \u00a0is father an ardent love of nature in all her varied forms,\u00a0Professor\u00a0Alonzo C. WEBB, supervisor of drawing in the public schools of\u00a0Nashville, is widely and favorably known as an artist, an ornithologist, and as\u00a0a lecturer on birds, their habits and habitat. His keen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,4165,4415,4419],"tags":[125,4172,4171,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-13800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-histtennesseans","8":"category-surname-w","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-armstrong","11":"tag-hanor","12":"tag-leaky-hoopes","13":"tag-webb","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13801,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800\/revisions\/13801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}