Biography

"Jacob Louis Webb, son of James Watson Webb and Laura Virginia (Cram) Webb, was born April 24, 1855. He was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He entered the class of 1880, Yale College, but after one year he left college for the purpose of studying art. He achieved considerable success in his chosen career, which later on in his life he was obliged to abandon through ill health. He is a mighty nimrod and spends most of his life out of doors, living nine months of the year abroad and three months in this country. He is unmarried."