Category: Historical Accounts
Various historical accounts, texts, and reader submissions, excluding News Articles.
The “Turn of the Century”
This event, destined to revolutionize transportation and military tactics and to play the deciding role in the fate of nations, was “covered” by a single obscure newspaper
Work and Growth
When I arrived at the mill office, the manager greeted me with a good deal of profanity, ending—’So you are the boy who invented this thing, are you? It is the worst contraption that ever came into this place.’
The “Gay 90’s”
Today, it is hard to realize that in the “90’s”—with bicycles, horse-drawn vehicles, trolley-cars and a few motor-driven contraptions—traffic accidents and fatalities were already a problem.
Warren Webster Enters the Heating Industry
Warren Webster was on the lookout for Opportunity. And Opportunity did come—let’s call him “Mr. Smith” to avoid hurting anyone’s feelings.
The Years 1876 to 1888
The year 1888 is the key-year in Warren Webster’s business career. His handling of his affairs in that year—at the age of twenty-five, establishes beyond question the quality of his foresight and judgment.
He Goes to Work
“One day Mr. Kohler, my landlord, made a suggestion. ‘I think you ought to reclaim tinfoil,’ he said, ‘you can collect it from the stores and melt it down to get the tin out of it.’
Back in Philadelphia – Growing Up
The late Mr. John Wanamaker said: ‘You are just starting out in life. You may be looking for easy roads to travel, but you won’t find them. You have to work hard to accomplish anything worthwhile.
1876—The Centennial
Little did he think that within a few short years steam heating throughout the world would bear the name of “Webster.”
Childhood at Woodbury, NJ
I don’t know of any particular thing that helps business so much as being able to advertise in such a way that people know exactly what they are going to get.
Under Lowering Clouds
General Warren was my grandfather’s particular war hero—and when my father was christened he was named “Warren” in his honor.
An Appreciation
Warren Webster had a tremendous capacity for work—for getting things done. He was quick to recognize talent and ability in others and never hesitated to acknowledge it.
Carol Sampson Feaster – Oral History
..So she sat me down with a soup bowl full. Well, I just looked at the dish and upchucked all over. And she said,” You can go.