Daniel Webster was born April 12, 1833. Very little can be learned from the letters concerning his early life, except that his parents were pioneers of Ohio and that he attended commercial college in Cleveland in 1855. During the Civil War, Webster served in the 1st Wisconsin Battery, Light Artillery. Records reveal that after the war was over, Captain Webster was associated with John Kellogg in the law firm of Kellogg and Webster of La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1868-1869, was county judge for a few months in 1870, and then resigned. His whereabouts after 1870 could not be traced.
