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Subject: Judge Frederick C. Webster
Date: 3 Jan 2003 22:57:08 -0700
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Montana Its Story and Biography
A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Montana and Three Decades of Statehood
Tom Stout, editor
copyright 1921
Volume 2 p 461
JUDGE FREDERICK C. WEBSTER, who for a dozen years was a judge of the District Court at Missoula, is one of the oldest members of the Montana bar still in active service. He handled his first cases at Butte some five years before Montana was admitted to the Union.
Judge Webster is of an old New England family and was born at Litchfield, Connecticut. He is a graduate with the class of 1873 from Yale University, and studied law under Judge Seymour of Litchfield. He was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1874, and after a period of private practice moved to Minneapolis, where he was a partner with Judge Atwater in the firm of Atwater and Webster. Judge Webster lived for a time in Colorado and from there came to Montana in 1884. His first home was at Butte, but since 1887 he has lived in Missoula and practiced law. He was associated with Judge Woody for some years, was elected and served as county attorney four years, was mayor four years, and in 1900 succeeded Judge Woody on the bench of the District Court. By re-election he remained on the bench, giving his duties the benefit of all his wide experience and learning for twelve years, and in 1917 was appointed receiver of the Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Company. Judge Webster has!
been a life-long republican, and is a past grand master of the Masonic Order of Montana.
June 1, 1889, at Missoula, he married Miss Anna C. Bye, a native of Iowa. They have three children. One son, Charles Norman, early in the war joined the Ninth Artillery Regiment and was trained at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The son Fred B. is a young lawyer and associated with his father in practice.
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