JOHN M. WEBB - Chickasaw

The subject of this shetch was born at Prattville, Alabama, in August, 1850. He is the son of the late Frank Webb, of Rawley, South Carolina. Coming to Panola county, Chickasaw Nation, in 1872, John M. rented a farm until his marriage to Abigail Kemp, daughter of Joel Kemp, after which he purchased the improvements on the land where he now resides. Mr. Webb was elected to the House of Representatives in 1881, during Overton's administration and while Hicky-ubbe filled Overton's unexpired term. In 1889 he was re-elected under the Byrd administration, which office he still occupies, though under the law of disfranchisement by the National party. In 1889 he was one of the committee appointed to contract and superintend the building of Bloomfield Academy. Mr. Webb has four sons, Joel, George, William and John, the oldest aged twelve years and the youngest five.

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