This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Webb, Northup Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJB.2ACI/1285 Message Board Post: The citation for this book is: Title: History of the Upper Mississippi Valley Publisher: Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Company, 1881 Contents: The Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys by N.H. Winchell; Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota by Edward D. Neill; Outlines of the History of Minnesota by J. Fletcher Williams; State Education by Charles A. Bryant Page 438 Melrose Township O.D.WEBB, dates his birth in Jefferson county, New York, in July, 1821. When eighteen years old, he left home and went to work in a flouring mill where he remained two years. He then went to Plainsfield, Illinois, where he remained during a severe illness, and after his recovery, went to Chicago and was clerk in a store one year. Then took a trip through the Northwest, visited the East and again returned to Plainsfield, where he built and ran a flouring mill, and resided at different places in Illinois until 1855. At the latter date, he came to Minnesota, locating at Sauk Rapids, where he built a saw mill to which was afterwards added a flouring mill; from this time until 1878. Mr. Webb built and operated flouring mill at Fair Haven and Paynesville, in Minnsota, and Clinton, Wisconsin. In 1878, he removed his family to his present residence, near Melrose. Mr. Webb was married on the fourth of April, 1847, to Miss Esther Northup, of Lewis county, New York.