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JAMES S. WEBSTER, merchant, Ansonia, resides in Dallas. The subject of this memoir, a native of Fayette Co., Ohio, was born Jan. 1, 1820; he was a son of Dr. James Webster, who was born in Pennsylvania, and emigrated to Ohio and Fayette County in 1804, two years after its admission into the Union as a State; he was consequently one of the early pioneers of the State; he followed the practice of medicine a short time in Fayette County, and in 1815 he was elected Sheriff of the county, and about the year 1829, was Associate Judge, which office he held several years, after which he was Treasurer of the county for four years. The latter part of his life he devoted to the carding and fulling of wool at his factory at Washington; his death occurred January, 1837; he was married in Kentucky, to Amelia Dauson; she died previous to her husband. J. S. Webster worked in the woolen-mill of his father, until the decease of the latter, after which he followed farming some two years, when he engaged in the trade of harness-maker at Mt. Sterling until 1866, when he came to Darke County, and, after following his trade one year in Greenville, purchased a farm of 114 acres in Greenville Township, three miles south of Dallas, and followed farming until the spring of 1879, when he rented his farm and purchased a residence in Dallas, and engaged in the general merchandise with T. B. White. His marriage with Pamelia Loofbourrow was celebrated June 18, 1845; she was born in Fayette Co., Ohio, in 1827; eight children were born to them; five are now living—Nathan A., produce merchant, of Greenville; William, living at home; Hannah, now Mrs. T. B. White; Linden, clerk in his father’s store; Laura, living at home. Mr. Webster has been a member of the Baptist Church for a period of fifteen years; Mrs. W. also a member of the same church.