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Barnstable, where by various arrangements by his highly cultured and appreciative audience he was con- tinued six years consecutively. Here he died, March 19, 1867, one of the most noted Methodists of his time, having spent more years in the active work than anj' other preacher in the annals of Methodism. See Min- utes of Annual Conferences, 1867, p. 101.
Webb, Francis, an English Baptist minister, was born at Taunton in 1735. lie became minister of a con- gregation at Barbican, London ; also at Honiton ; and died in 1815. He was the author of some volumes of Sermons: — Somerset: a Poem (1811): — and Panhar- monicon (1815). See (Lend.) Gentleman's Magazine, 1815, ii, 278, o63.
"Webb, James, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Pennsylvania in 1829. He embraced relig- ion in early life ; years later was licensed as an exhort- er; and began his ministerial life in 18.58 on Zion Circuit, Cecil Co., Md. Meeting with discouragements, he be- gan to doubt the genuineness of his call, and soon re- turned to his former vocation. After much prayer and counsel he again began the active work ; joined the Philadelphia Conference in 1860, and in it labored four years so persistently that his health gave way and caused his superannuation. He died, greatly lamented, in Chester County, Pa., Oct. 8, 1864. See Minutes of A nnual Conferences, 1865, p. 34.
Webb, Johij (1), an American divine, was born in 1687. He graduated at Harvard College in 1708; was ordained minister of the New North Church, Boston, in 1714; and died in 1750. He published twenty single Sermons. See AUibone, Diet, of Brit, and A met: A u- t/iors, s. V.
Webb, John (2), an English clergyman and emi- nent antiquary, was born in 1776, and died in 1869. He was the author of. Translation of a French Metrical History of the Deposition of Kim/ Richard II (Lond. 1823) : — Household Expenses of Richard de Sicinfield (1855). See AWihone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. V.
Webb, John (3), an English Congregational min- ister, was born at Dulcot in 1827. Early in life he ex- perienced a thorough consecration to God, and was dili- gent in preparation for the ministry. Mr. Webb grad- uated at the Western College, and settled at Castle Cary in 1851. He removed to Shepton-Mallet in 1858, and settled at Lewis in 1864. The Church and congrega- tion greatly increased under his administration. Mr. Webb's reading was extensive among the best writers and thinkers of the day; and his preaching, though simple, was combined with such intelligence that he at- tracted the thoughtful Christians, and always attached them to his ministry. He died Nov. 7, 1867. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1868, p. 301.
Webb, John (4), an English minister of the Bible Christians, was born Jan. 31, 1836. After laboring for some time as a local preacher, he gave himself wholly to the work of the ministry. He entered the Confer- ence in 1860. At the Conference of 1873, feeble health obliged him to take a supernumerary relation. He died June 7, 1874. See Minutes of Conferences, 1874.
"Webb, Joseph, a Presbyterian minister, was a graduate of Yale College in the class of 1715. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Church at Newark, N. J., and became a member of the Synod in 1720. He proposed to the Synod a case of conscience, but in such general and doubtful terms that it was remitted to the Presbytery. In 1726 a committee of Synod, at his re- ([uest, went to Newark to settle a ditKculty which had arisen : and the Synod approved of its action in the premises. In 1732 difficulties in his congregation led the Church missionaries to commence their services in the town. Dickinson preached on "the vanity of hu- man institutions in matters of religion." Colonel Josiah Ogden had been suspended from Church privileges be-
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cause, for fear of losing his hay, he had gathered it in on the Lord's day. He wrote to tlie Synod in 1734, and Cross and Pemberton replied ; but the letter did not satisfy him. Dickinson and Pemberton wrote the next year. The result was that Ogden joined the Episco- palians, and a Church missionary was stationed in New- ark. Webb continued his relation to the Svnod till 1740. He and his son, a student of Yale College, were drowned while crossing the ferry at Savbrook, Conn., Oct. 21, 1741. (W. P. S.)
"Webb, Loren, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Kidgetield, Huron Co., O., Aug. 9, 1837. He removed with his parents to La Porte, Ind., when thirteen years of age ; there received a common-school education ; experienced conversion in 1855 ; removed to Roscoe, Minn., in 1857 ; spent two winters in a print- ing-office ; received license to preach in 1858 ; studied two j'ears at McKendree College ; was one of the first to respond to president Lincoln's call for volunteers to put down the Rebellion, and served the first three months as first lieutenant, and the next three years as captain of Company F, Ninth Illinois Infantry; then, being dis- abled for the infantry, returned home. Soon after he joined in the effort to suppress the Sioux Indian outbreak; afterwards labored zealously as a recruit- ing-officer; and finally, re-entering the university at Red Wing, resumed his studies. In 1867 he entered the New York East Conference, and was stationed at Collinsville, Conn. His subsequent charges were: Es- sex, in 1868-69; and in 1870 Forestville, where his close application and over-exertions undermined his constitution, and hemorrhage of the lungs set in. He removed South, and emjiloyed himself at various man- ual occupations until his demise at Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 20, 1880. The last six years of his life were full of poverty, bereavement, and deep sorrow. See Min- utes of Annucd Conferences, 1880, p. 50.