• General Notes

  Henry J. Webster, an enterprising merchant, and one of the leading citizens of Belfast, is a son of Lewis F. Webster, for many years a merchant, and prominent man of Concord township, and grandson of Thomas Webster, an early settler in Dodson township.
  
  Henry J. Webster was born near Allensburg, in Dodson township, August 18, 1865, was educated in the district school, and when he had reached manhood was married to Sarah Fenner, a native of Union township, and a member of one of the old families of the county. The first lived for a short time at Blanchester, Ohio, and then removed to Hillsboro, where he had a sewing machine agency for several years. Afterward they resided at Belfast, and he had the contract for carrying the mails on the star route between Belfast and Hillsboro for seven years. On April 1, 1902, he embarked in business at Belfast as a general merchant, putting in a well selected stock of groceries, stoves and furniture, farming implements, etc.
  
  Though a young man he is a leader in his community, and has been honored three terms with the office of township clerk. He has provided his wife and two children, Irl V., and Mildred B., with one of the" neatest homes of the town. Socially he is popular and active, being a member of the following lodges at Belfast: No. 572, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; No. 696, Knights of Pythias, and No. 571, Modern Woodmen of America. He is noble grand of the Odd Fellows and has held all the other chairs, and has been clerk of the Modern Woodmen since the organization of the lodge. In religious affiliation he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Democrat.
  

Details of Henry's family with Sarah Jane Fenner