Wilford Taft Webb

Transcribed by Jean Walker, April 2026. Who's Who in Arizona, Vol 1 by Jo Connors, 1913. Page 331-333.

W.T. Webb, one of the first Presidential Electors from Arizona, is the son of Gilbert and Almira Taft Webb, of Salt Lake City, where he was born in 1865, and educated in the public schools and University. He first came to Arizona in January, 1881, and located at Tombstone, where he remained about one year, and moving from there to Graham County, became associated with his father in business. In 1887 this business was disposed of and he turned his attention to stock business, in which he was engaged for four years, when he returned to commercial life, this time as an independent venture and on a small scale, but from the first his methods were such as to commend him to the public, and his business has gradually increased until he is now considered one of the leading business men of the state. He is president of the Webb-Merrill Commercial Company of Pima, director of the Bank of Safford, owner of the Seventy-Six cattle ranch in the Grahm Mountains, and interested in various other enterprises in that section. Mr. Webb has long taken a prominent part in the political life of Arizona, is one of the local leaders of the Democratic party, and it is fitting that he should have had the honor of casting for the people of the state one of their first votes for President of the United State. He was a member of the Twenty-Second Legislature, receiving all the votes but two in the Pima precinct; was re-elected to the Twenty-Third Legislature, and was the only man in that body who was elected to succeed himself. In all he has represented Graham County three times in the Legislature, and was Speaker of the House in the Twenty-Third Legislature. He has also served two terms as Mayor of Pima with excellent results to the city. As a member of the Constitutional Convention he was known as a progressive, when in connection with the ablest men of that assembly, he took a leading part in the compilation of the Constitution. During the state campaign he was identified with the progressive Democracy. Mr. Webb was married in 1887 to Miss Sarah Burns, daughter of Enoch and Elizabeth Burns, of Pima.

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