Draft:John Lee Webb
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John Lee Webb (September 17, 1877 - August 30, 1946) was a businessman and philanthropist in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
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Itinerant preacher B. L. Webb was his father. He studied at Tuskegee Institute. Played football and baseball there. Volunteeree during the Spanish American War and served as a color bearer.
Woodmen of Union Building (relocated from Jackson, Mississippi)
He did carpentry work at Tuskegee Institute, in Louisiana, and elsewhere.[1]
He married Carrie Elaine Branson.
Sutton E. Griggs wrote about him in Triumph of the Simple Virtues; or the Life Story of John Lee Webb. The Messenger published it in 1926. Cheryl Batts wrote a book about him.
References
[edit]- ^ "Builders of Mississippi: John Lee Webb (1877-1946)". 25 January 2017.