Albinus Webster (1832-1910) was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, to an old New England family. He was an early settler in St. Croix County where, in 1862, he married Sarah E. Brusseau (b. 1830), a widow who had come west in 1849 from upstate New York and settled in St. Croix County in 1860. In 1875 Webster owned 120 acres in the Town of Kinnickinnic, approximately ten miles from River Falls and Hammond. In about 1888 he added 40 acres to the farm where he remained until his death.
Two of Albinus and Sarah Webster's four children survived infancy, Frank B. (1867-1949) and Perley F. (b. 1869). Frank B. attended River Falls Normal School and the University of Wisconsin and taught in rural and high schools in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. He married Bessie Clinch (b. 1870) in 1893 and they had five children. Frank and Bessie Webster returned to his parents' homestead in 1900 and remained in active farming until 1938. Frank Webster was known as a “progressive farmer advancing new methods.” In 1920 the Websters purchased the adjacent homestead farm of his grandfather, Bailey Webster and in 1931 moved to this farm. Perley Webster also was a farmer and in 1914 owned 240 acres about one mile from the Frank Webster farm.
