An Account of Oakland County / edited by Lillian Drake Avery.

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of the leading meat markets of the city, the same being how in charge
of his brother-in-law, Frank R. Whitfield, with the ownership of the
property and business vested in his widow and children. Mr. Webb
had a wide circle of friends in his hative city and coiinty, and was
actively affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the local lodge of the
Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks. On the 16th of October, 1901,
Mr. Webb was united in marriage to Miss Katherine E. Greer, who
likewise was born and reared in Oakland county, as wete also her
parents, William and Genevieve (Simpson) Greer. Mr. Greer was
born in' the year 1852 and the greater part of his active life was devoted to farming, he having died in 1911 and his widow having her
home at present in the city of Pontiac. Besides his widow
Mr. Webb is survived also by their five children, whose names and
respective dates of birth are here recorded: Alfred, August 22, 1902;
Thelma, January 31, 1904; Bernice, April 1, 1905; Beryl, August 7,
1908; and Edith, January 12, 1911. With her children Mrs. Webb
resides at 14 Mathew street, and in her native county her circle of
friends is coextensive with that of her acquaintances. Mr. Webb was a
thoroughgoing and progressive business man and his loyalty to his
native city and county found expression in his support of measures and
enterprises tending to advance the general communal welfare, both
civic and material.
Charles P. Webster, who is engaged in the practice of law in his
native city of Pontiac, is a scion of the fourth generation of the Webster family in Oakland county, where his paternal great-grandfather
settled in the early territorial period-more than a decade before
Michigan became one of the sovereign states of the Union. Of the
family history more specific record is given on other pages of this
volume, in the memoir dedicated to the late Elmer R. Webster.
Charles P. Webster was born in Pontiac July 18, 1886, and is a son
of Elmer R. and Birdie J. (Pither), Webster, individual record of
whom is given elsewhere in this publication, so that repetition of
the data is not here required. The Pontiac public schools gave to
Charles P. Webster his earlier education, which included the curriculum of the high school, and in preparation for his chosen profession he completed a course in the law department of the University
of Chattanooga, Tennessee, in which he was graduated as a member
of the class of 1908. After thus receiving his degree of Bachelor
of Laws he passed the examination that gained him admission to the
bar of his native state, and he forthwith became associated with his
father in the practice of law in Pontiac, as junior member of the firm
of E. R. & C.'P. Webster. This professional alliance continued until
the death of his father, in 1924, and since that time he has continued
in independent practice, with a substantial general law business of
important and representative order. He takes loyal interest in all
that concerns the welfare and advancement of his native city and of
the county in which the Webster family has the maximum of pioneer
priority and distinction. Like his father and grandfather, he is
a staunch advocate of progressive policies in connection with educa