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H. Walter Webb

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H. Walter Webb, at one time actively connected with the management of the New York Central Railroad, died at Beechwood, his country place, at 12:45 this afternoon, of acute heart trouble. His death was entirely unexpected, for, although he had been reported as suffering from tuberculosis for some
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Henry Walter Webb, son of the late Henry Walter Webb and Leila Howard Griswold Webb, is dead at his home, 840 Park Avenue, In his thirty-third year. Mr. Webb was graduated from Yale and was a member of the Yale Union and Racquet Clubs. He was married on Nov. 3, 1010 to Miss Constance Eastman, an
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Webb was an advocate of fast railway travel and ran what was then the fastest railway train in the world, averaging nearly 60 miles per hour over 450 miles. In 1893 he made a bold and ultimately true prediction for the next hundred years:
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A Souvenir: The Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence River from Kingston and Cape Vincent to Morristown and Brockville. With Their Recorded History from the Earliest Times ... Profusely Illustrated ...
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Officers and Graduates of Columbia University, Originally the College of the Province of New York Known as King's College: General Catalogue ...
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almost to its source, and crossing the Andes, he exited South America by way of Peru, returning to the US by ship. He then studied law, also at
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Doyle, Jnr, David D. (Oct 2004). ""A Very Proper Bostonian": Rediscovering Ogden Codman and His Late-Nineteenth-Century Queer World".
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Presentation of Suñol's Bronze Statue of Christopher Columbus: The Mall, Central Park, New York, Saturday, May 12, 1894
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banking and brokerage. He drifted into the railway business almost by accident through his brother,
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After briefly practiced law, which he found unsatisfying, he soon thereafter became active in
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Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
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He died from heart trouble on June 18, 1900, at his country residence,
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By 1993, a traveler will be able to have his breakfast in
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Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
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actress. Mr. Webb was a kinsman of the Vanderbilt family.
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Catalogue of the Members of the Fraternity of Delta Psi.
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Henry Walter Webb passport application from 21 May 1890
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Tarrytown, New York
Scarborough, New York
Columbia College School of Mines
Columbia Law School
Leila Howard Griswold
J. Griswold Webb
James Watson Webb
William Seward Webb
Alexander S. Webb
James Watson Webb II
Alexander S. Webb Jr.
New York Central Railroad
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Chauncey Depew
Tarrytown, New York
James Watson Webb
United States Minister to Brazil
William Seward Webb
Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt
Alexander Steward Webb
President of City College of New York
Columbia College School of Mines
St. Anthony Hall
Amazon River
Columbia

Beechwood
Wall Street
Dr. William Seward Webb

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