Walter Webb (other)
Walter Webb may refer to: * Walter Prescott Webb, American historian * Walter Freeman Webb, American ornithologist, conchologist and shell dealer * H. Walter Webb, American railway executive * Wally Webb Walter William Webb (1885–1956) was a rugby league footballer in the Australian competition the New South Wales Rugby League. Biography Wally Webb played for the Eastern Suburbs club in the 1909 season but it better remembered as a leading ...

Walter Prescott Webb
Walter Prescott Webb (April 3, 1888 in Panola County, Texas – March 8, 1963 near Austin, Texas) was an American historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical Association, he launched the project that produced the ''Handbook of Texas''. He is a member of the Hall of Great Westerners, which is a part of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Early life Walter Prescott Webb was born on April 3, 1888 in rural Panola County, Texas to Casner P. and Elizabeth (Kyle) Webb. His father worked a farm part-time while teaching school.When Webb was a teenager, the family moved west to the arid western Cross Timbers region traversing Stephens County and Eastland County, Texas. He helped with the family farming business and attended Ranger High School. The Webbs moved frequently to different tenant farms within the region. According to Webb, these experiences at the edge of the western plains of Texas influenced his ea ...
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Walter Freeman Webb
Walter Freeman Webb (1869 – 1957) was an American ornithologist, conchologist and shell dealer. Webb was born on a farm in the Mid-west of the United States on May 28, 1869. At age 13 he began collecting and selling bird's eggs. He first worked as a stenographer, then a nurseryman, then he became a natural history dealer in Albion, NY following a successful commercial exhibit at World's Columbian Exposition, World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. From 1894-1905 he published the magazine ''The Museum'': "A journal devoted to research in natural scienc He bought and sold several important shell collections. In 1946 he moved to St. Petersburg, Florida where he continued his shell and coin business. Webb sold over 20,000 eggs and 10,000 bird skins between 1883 and 1903. In 1930 he was America's largest shell dealer, having about 25,000 species in stock. He died in June 1957, in St. Petersburg, Florida. Works *''Ornithologists' and oologists' manual: consisting of a complete list ...
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