Webb, Ulysses Robert (1882-1947)

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United States Navy

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Birth Date

1874-01-18

Death Date

1947-06-13

Birthplace

Covington, TN

Biographical Text

Ulysses R. Webb was a physician and United States Navy officer. Webb served mostly in the Pacific, serving on the U.S.S. Kentucky and the U.S.S. Iris, working at a hospital in Manilla before World War I. He served at the Mare Island Naval Hospital during the war, and in 1922 was stationed in Yokohama Japan, as commander of the Naval Hospital there. Webb survived the destruction of the hospital during the Great Kanto Earthquake in September 1923. He retired from the Navy in 1938.

Webb married Elizabeth Pegsam in 1898. They had two children, Elizabeth and Robert.

Occupation

Military officer

Surgeon

Source

Picture: 1922 passport, U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925

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People

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Edited By

Hajo, Cathy Moran

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Male

First appears

1921

Bibliography and Links

Andre Sobocinski, A Look Back: Navy Medicine in 1914, Navy Medicine Live.

Cruisers Leave for Maneuvers, San Francsico Chronicle, October 24, 1911, p. 5.

Find A Grave

Mare Island, San Francisco Chronicle, October 28, 1917, p 6.

Narrates Vivid Story of Quake, Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1923, p. 9.

Orders for Naval Men, San Francisco Chronicle, March 14, 1902, p. 3.

Ulys R . Webb, District of Columbia, Compiled Marriage Index, 1830-1921

Ulysses R Webb, U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995

Citation

“Webb, Ulysses Robert (1882-1947),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 27, 2024, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/15693.