Henry Kitchell Webster

Background

Webster, Henry Kitchell was born on September 7, 1875 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Son of Towner Keeney and Emma J. (Kitchell) Webster.

Education

Graduate Hamilton College, 1897, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1925. Instructor rhetoric, Union College, 1897-1898.

Career

Author: The Short Line War (with Samuel Merwin), 1899. The Banker and the Bear. The Story of a Corner in Land, 1900.

Calumet “K” (with Samuel Merwin), 1901. Roger Drake, Captain of Industry, 1903. The Duke of Cameron Avenue, 1904.

Traitor and Loyalist, 1904. Comrade John (with Samuel Merwin), 1907. The Whispering Man, 1908.

A King in Khaki, 1909. The Sky Man, 1910; The Girl in the Other Seat, 1911. June Madness (play), produced New York, September 1912.

The Ghost Girl, 1913. The Butterfly, 1914; The Real Adventure, 1916. The Painted Scene, 1916.

The Thoroughbred, 1917. An American Family, 1918. Mary Wollaston, 1920.

Real Life, 1921; Joseph Greer and His Daughter, 1922. The Innocents, 1924; The Corbin Necklace, 1926. Philopena, 1927; The Beginners, 1927.

The Clock Strikes Two, 1928. The Quartz Eye, 1928. The Sealed Trunk, 1929.

Who Is the Next?, 1931. Home: Evanston, Ill.

Works

• Other Work

  • Author: The Short Line War (with Samuel Merwin), 1899. The Banker and the Bear. The Story of a Corner in Land, 1900.
    
    Calumet “K” (with Samuel Merwin), 1901. Roger Drake, Captain of Industry, 1903. The Duke of Cameron Avenue, 1904.
    
    Traitor and Loyalist, 1904. Comrade John (with Samuel Merwin), 1907. The Whispering Man, 1908.
    
    A King in Khaki, 1909. The Sky Man, 1910

  • The Girl in the Other Seat, 1911. June Madness (play), produced New York, September 1912.
    
    The Ghost Girl, 1913. The Butterfly, 1914

  • The Real Adventure, 1916. The Painted Scene, 1916.
    
    The Thoroughbred, 1917. An American Family, 1918. Mary Wollaston, 1920.
    
    Real Life, 1921

  • Joseph Greer and His Daughter, 1922. The Innocents, 1924

  • The Corbin Necklace, 1926. Philopena, 1927

  • The Beginners, 1927.
    
    The Clock Strikes Two, 1928. The Quartz Eye, 1928. The Sealed Trunk, 1929.
    
    Who Is the Next?, 1931.

Connections

Married Mary Ward Orth, September 7, 1901. Children: Henry Kitchell, Stokely, Roderick Sheldon.

Father:

Towner Keeney Webster

Mother:

Emma J. (Kitchell) Webster

Spouse:

Mary Ward Orth

child:

Henry Kitchell Webster

child:

Stokely Webster

child:

Roderick Sheldon Webster