Leland Justin Webb

His father was Colonel William C. Webb, a district attorney, judge and state assemblyman.

Born in Smithfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania on August 5, 1846, Webb moved with his parents to Wautoma, Wisconsin in 1853.

[1][2] During the American Civil War, at the age of fifteen, he enlisted as a drummer in Company H, 16th Wisconsin Infantry, on October 15, 1861, and was discharged on August 25, 1862.

[1][2] Webb was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and served as Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Veterans from 1890 to 1891.

He was a hereditary companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States by right of his father's service as a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War.