Webster, E. G. bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 933, Vermont Township
E. G. Webster, head salesman for J. & H. Mershon, was born in Virginia in 1812, passed his boyhood in Kentucky, where he obtained a good education and married Sarah A., daughter of John Lawson; in 1850 he came to Vermont and was immediately employed by Joab Mershon as salesman of dry goods, which position he has held ever since, - a fact which speaks volumes for Mr. Webster’s integrity. He has had 11 children, 7 of whom are living, namely, J. W. and Luella, residents of Kansas; Sarah E., at Minonk, Ill.; Minerva, at Elgin, Ill.; Emma C., John and Edward in Vermont. The last named is now studying medicine at Keokuk.