Draft:John Lee Webb

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John Lee Webb (September 17, 1877 - August 30, 1946) was a businessman and philanthropist in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu4wfGwy2ro

Itinerant preacher B. L. Webb was his father. He studied at Tuskegee Institute. Played football and baseball there. Volunteeree during the Spanish American War and served as a color bearer.

Woodmen of Union Building (relocated from Jackson, Mississippi)

He did carpentry work at Tuskegee Institute, in Louisiana, and elsewhere.^[1]

He married Carrie Elaine Branson.

Sutton E. Griggs wrote about him in Triumph of the Simple Virtues; or the Life Story of John Lee Webb. The Messenger published it in 1926. Cheryl Batts wrote a book about him.

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