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Abd-Allah, Umar F.
Chairman of the Board and Scholar-in-Residence, Nawawi Foundation
Print publication date: 2006 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2006 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-518728-1 |
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doi:10.1093/0195187288.003.0004
Abstract: This chapter begins with a description of Webb's move to Chicago where he worked as a jeweler. Webb married Laura Conger in Chicago on May 4, 1870, but she disappeared the night of the Great Fire. It then focuses on his move moved to Unionville, Missouri, where he joined the Unionville Republican as coeditor and coproprietor in partnership with the paper's founder, W. T. O'Bryant. The chapter then describes his life in St. Joseph and St. Louis, Missouri.
Keywords: Laura Conger, Chicago, Great Fire, Unionville, Missouri, Muslim American, W. T. O'Bryant,
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