mer years one of the most active
business men in this vicinity, engaged in many other enterprises outside
of his regular business. He was one of the incorporators of the Malden
Bank; was its president for several years; was one of the incorporators
of the Malden & Melrose Gas Company, and one of the Suffolk Horse
Railroad Company, since consolidated with the Metropolitan, of which he
was a director and the treasurer for some years. He was director and
treasurer of the Boston, Revere Beach, & Lynn Railroad from its
incorporation to the year 1880. He was a member of the City Council of
Boston in 1855 and 1856. He represented his ward in the Legislature of
Massachusetts in 1857, and again in 1880 and 1881.

Mr. Webster, when a young man, was in sympathy with the Whig party; but,
on the organization of the Free Soil party, became its earnest
supporter, and so continued until the formation of the Republican party,
of which he remained an ardent advocate until the day of his death.

His only son, Frederick G. Webster, in the year 1863, while yet a minor,
was tendered by Governor Andrew a commission as Lieutenant of the
Fifty-fourth Massachusetts,--Colonel Shaw's regiment,--one of the first
regiments of colored troops organized in the country. He accepted his
commission. Mr. Webster was too patriotic, too much devoted to the good
cause, to withhold his consent that his son should enter the army, and
the young man joined his regiment at Folly Island, South Carolina. In an
engagement which occurred soon after the captain of the company was
killed, and Lieutenant Webster took the place of his fallen superior,
and his comrades testify that he filled it with intrepid courage and
efficiency throughout the battle. Subsequently he fell sick with typhoid
fever, was taken to the hospital at Beaufort, S.C., and there died,
before his father could reach him. Mr. Webster leaves a widow and four
grown daughters, sorrow-stricken at his sudden and unexpected decease.

Any one who knew Mr. Webster in connection with charitable and
philanthropic work must testify to the gentle, loving kindness of his
nature and to his ready sympathy with the sorrows and misfortunes of his
fellow-creatures, and with every good work intended to ameliorate their
condition. He was one of the original members of the Citizens' Law and
Order League, was one of its first vice-presidents, and remained one of
its officers to the day of his death. He was the treasurer of