Résumé

Principal, Walter Webber, Building Contractor, Los Angeles, CA, 1896. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Registers, 1896; Collection Number: 4-2A; CSL Roll Number: 21; FHL Roll Number: 976930, accessed 07/19/2022.)

Wholesale Fruit Merchant, Los Angeles, CA, 1900. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Los Angeles Ward 5, Los Angeles, California; Roll: 89; Page: 11; Enumeration District: 0049; FHL microfilm: 1240089, accessed 07/19/2022.)

Hotelkeeper, Los Angeles, CA, c. 1905-1910. He managed a hotel with his second wife Teresa according to the 1910 US Census. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Los Angeles Assembly District 73, Los Angeles, California; Roll: T624_83; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 0187; FHL microfilm: 1374096, accessed 07/19/2022.) In 1905, Webber managed a rooming house at 452 South Hill Street in Downtown Los Angeles. His widowed mother, Ellen, lived at this address in that year. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1905, p. 1515.

Principal, Walter I. Webber, Architect, Los Angeles, CA, c. 1919; around 11/1919, Webber moved from an Office #718 in the Ferguson Building to Office #1017 in the Hibernian Building in Los Angeles. (See "Personal," Architect and Engineer, vol. LX, no. 1, 01/1920, p. 113.)

Partner, Webber, Staunton and Spaulding, Architects, Los Angeles, CA, 1924-1928. This firm's most outstanding commission was for the Beverly Hills house of actor Harold Lloyd (1893-1971) in 1927-1928.

Partner, Webber and Spaulding, Architects, Los Angeles, CA, c. 1929-1933. Webber and Spaulding had their office at 627 South Carondolet Street, Room #103, in 1929. (See Los Angeles, CA, City Directory, 1929, p. 2463.)

Relocation

Webber was born in Roxbury, MA, in the penultimate year of the Civil War.

He resided at 1941 Lovelace Avenue in Los Angeles's University Park neighborhood, according 1896 voting records. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Registers, 1896; Collection Number: 4-2A; CSL Roll Number: 21; FHL Roll Number: 976930, accessed 07/19/2022.)

A "Walter R. Webber" born in MA in 08/1863, lived with his mother, "Helen," in a boarding house at 2500 Vermont Street in Los Angeles. The 1900 US Census indicated that Webber was a widower at the time and that he worked as a wholesale fruit merchant. They lived in the house of a single woman, Emily C. Clarke (born c. 06/1868 in CA). Ms. Clarke also had a widowed servant, Emma Pinkerton (born c. 10/1847 in OH). (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Los Angeles Ward 5, Los Angeles, California; Roll: 89; Page: 11; Enumeration District: 0049; FHL microfilm: 1240089, accessed 07/19/2022.)

It is likely that he resided at his own rooming house at 452 South Hill Street in Downtown Los Angeles in 1905. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1905, p. 1515.

With his second wife, Teresa, Webber lived at 1032 West 9th Street in Los Angeles by 1910. They had a housekeeper, Florence E. Field (born c. 1868 in IL), who was divorced at the time, and a mother of three children.

He died in Los Angeles County, CA, at the age of 78.

Parents

His mother was Ellen S. Everett (born c. 12/1828 in MA), his father, Cushing Webber (d. 09/03/1895 in MA), a dentist in Roxbury, MA. Ellen and Cushing married on 01/01/1849 in Roxbury, MA. His parents were James H. Webber and Rebecca Webber.

Spouse

He married Caryl Clark on 08/29/1900 in Santa Monica, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California Department of Public Health, courtesy of www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com. Digital Images, accessed 07/19/2022.)

His second wife was Teresa E. Webber (born c. 1880 in IL).

Biographical Notes

Los Angeles County voter records listed Webber at age 32 as standing 5-feet, 10-inches tall, with a dark Caucasian complexion, brown eyes and black hair. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Registers, 1896; Collection Number: 4-2A; CSL Roll Number: 21; FHL Roll Number: 976930, accessed 07/19/2022.)