Webb, Isaac, 1798-1842

Isaac Webb was born in Chester, Conn., in 1798. He graduated from Yale College and became president of Nichols Academy in Dudley, Mass., from 1823-1824. Soon afterwards, he received his law degree. He was a member of the Yale Law School faculty and also a tutor at the college. Webb opened a law office in Middletown, Conn., in 1827. Later he went to Cincinnati to be a lawyer but returned to start a boys school in Middletown, Conn. It was open for nine years and counted President Rutherford B. Hayes among its pupils. Webb married Mary Trumbull in 1828. She died in 1836 and he remarried her sister, Sarah Isabella McClellan. On a trip to Europe, he contracted fever and returned to the U.S., in 1842. On Sept. 29, 1842, while temporarily deranged, he threw himself off a steamboat into Long Island Sound and his body was found washed up in Clinton, Conn.

From the description of Isaac Webb collection, 1829-1929 (bulk 1829-1845). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 748435897