Benjamin Joseph Webb, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Benjamin Joseph Webb

American politician

Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1814

Date of Death: 02-Aug-1897

Profession: politician, editor, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Benjamin Joseph Webb

  • Benjamin Joseph Webb (February 25, 1814 - August 2, 1897) was a Catholic editor, state senator for Kentucky, and historian. Webb was born in Bardstown, Kentucky, to a father who was a 1774 pioneer to that state.
  • He was educated at St.
  • Joseph's College in Bardstown, but left at an early age to learn the printer's trade.
  • He took a position as foreman of the office of the Journal, a newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky.
  • It was while he was a foreman in 1836 that the Rev.
  • Dr.
  • Reynolds (his former teacher and later Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina) persuaded him to head the Bardstown publication the Catholic Advocate.
  • Webb accepted the assignment and worked along with Bishops Spalding, David, and Benedict Joseph Flaget.
  • Webb moved the office of the Catholic Advocate to Louisville in 1841, and in 1847 he retired from its management.
  • He continued to defend Catholic interests, notably in connection with George D.
  • Prentice, editor of the Louisville Journal in 1855.
  • In a series of letters he attacked the intolerance and disgrace of the Know-Nothing movement; these letters were subsequently printed in book form with the title "Letters of a Kentucky Catholic".
  • On May 1, 1858, with further assistance from Bishop Spalding and in connection with other members of the Particular Council of the St.
  • Vincent de Paul Society of Louisville, he issued the Catholic Guardian, a production ended in July, 1862 by the ongoing American Civil War.
  • On the revival of the paper in 1869, he again contributed to it.
  • He served as a member of the Kentucky State Senate from 1867 to 1875, and in 1868 wrote the memoirs of Governors Lazarus W.
  • Powell and John L.
  • Helm.
  • His association with Catholic interests in Kentucky led him to compile The Centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky in 1884, a volume cataloguing the persons and times of Kentucky's pioneering era.
  • Webb died in Louisville on August 2, 1897. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed.
  • (1913).
  • "Benjamin Joseph Webb" .
  • Catholic Encyclopedia.
  • New York: Robert Appleton.

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