John White Webster
American academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John White Webster was an American professor of chemistry and geology at Harvard Medical College. In 1850, he was convicted of murder in the Parkman–Webster murder case and hanged. Biography Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Webster was well-connected both by family and by profession: his grandfather was a successful merchant; his mother, Hannah Webster, was a Leverett, a member of one of the great Harvard College dynasties, and a descendant of John Leverett, an early governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; his wife's sister married into the Prescotts, descendants of William Prescott, who commanded patriot troops at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and after whom the town of Prescott was named. He was friends with Robert Gould Shaw, and his Unitarian pastor was the Reverend Francis Parkman Sr. . These connections ensured that he moved securely within a socially-connected, exclusive, educated, and privileged circle of society. Webster, indulged as a child and pampered in youth, had a petulant and fussy disposition, but was known for his kindly nature.
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