Famous people · Webster Township
19 famous people were born within 35 miles of Webster Township
Walter Quintin Gresham is the most widely known, written about in 27 languages. Closest of all is Walter Howard Evans, from New Middletown, 2 mi away. Next door, Boone Township lists one, Claudius H. Huston. Not one famous person on record comes from Webster Township yet.
Born nearby
19
within 35 miles
Closest
8 mi
Walter Quintin Gresham
Best known
Walter Quintin Gresham
in 27 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about Webster Township’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near Webster Township
The 19 best known born within 35 miles, nearest first.
Catharine Merrill
1824–1900American Civil War nurse and professor
Walter Quintin Gresham
1832–1895US Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Union Army general
William Henry Steward
1847–1935American civil rights activist
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Boone Township leads the towns around it, with one name.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Webster Township and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Nearby people are those born in a town within 35 miles; distances are town center to town center. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (14)
- Walter Quintin Gresham: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Cantrell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pee Wee Reese: Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Clarence Self Ridley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William T. Zenor: The Neale Company (Washington, DC), publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Theopilus Jones: H.B. Hall & Sons, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Catharine Merrill: Theodore Clement Steele, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Forrest Lucas: Stuart Rowlands, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Strother M. Stockslager: unidentified illustrator, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard W. Thompson: Culp, Daniel Wallace (Life time: 1923), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Henry Steward: Simmons, William J., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pinky May: Play Ball cards, published by Bowman Gum, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Embry Wrather: USGS, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Claudius H. Huston: Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons