He married his wife, Mary Jane, in San Diego in 1875,[2][3] before moving to Arizona in either 1876 or 1877,[4] where he became a farmer and cattle rancher in Maricopa County.

[2] Webb's young son, Grover Adlai, died at the age of 18 months in March 1894 due to bronchitis.

[9] Another child of the Webb's, a 10-month old infant, died suddenly at their home in Phoenix on Central Avenue in November 1898.

[11] In early 1898 he briefly worked as a deputy U. S. Marshall, and participated in the posse which tracked down the outlaw known as "Black Jack".

[17] In 1899, Myron H. McCord, former territorial governor of Arizona, purchased a controlling interest in the paper, and ousted Webb and Dunbar.

Around noon on June 28 around noon, miners had loaded five holes in preparation for blasting, and George had begun to light the fuses to set them off in order, when one blasts went off prematurely, causing George to be struck in the face and chest with rock shrapnel.

[39][40] With the departure of Grover Cleveland from office in March 1897 and the beginning of a Republican administration in Washington D.C., Webb tendered his resignation as customs collector, which President McKinley accepted.

[51] In 1908 Webb was once again nominated by the Democrats as their choice for one of the lower house seats in the state legislature from Maricopa County.

[52] Webb, along with his two Democrat colleagues, Frank DeSouza and J. W. Woolf, along with Republican J. C. Reed, won the four house seats from Maricopa in November's general election.

[53][54] Very shortly after the general election, the fight for the speakership of the house began, with Webb squaring off against Fred Sutter.

[55][56] By January 1909 two more members of the House, W. W. Pace and J. W. Woolf, announced their intention to run for the speakership.

However, the 17th Democrat in the house, Joseph Patterson of Navajo County, arrived late and cast the deciding vote for Webb.

[64] Stapley garnered the most number of votes in the Democrat's primary, while Webb eked out a victory over the incumbent, Davis.

[66] In 1916, he did not run for re-election to the state senate, instead he ran for, and won the position of Maricopa County Treasurer.