Rollin S. Webb
Rollin S. Webb, lawyer, Garrettsville, was born in Freedom Township, Portage Co., Ohio, January 4, 1844, son of Dr. James and Eliza L.Webb. His early life was employed on the homestead farm and in attending the neighboring common school and academy. At the age of eighteen he entered upon his career in life as a clerk in a furnishing establishment in Youngstown, where he remained about a year, and then returned to Garrettsville and entered the employ of W. S. Wright, who at that time was Postmaster and owned a grocery store. He remained in his service several months, then enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Ohio National Guards, Company H, 100 days regiment, and immediately went to the front and participated in numerous engagements, and returned home. He spent the following year on the homestead in Freedom Township, this county; then taught school one winter in Ravenna Township, then went to Trumbull County, Ohio, and devoted his time for two years to the study of dentistry. Returning to Garrettsville he followed this profession for ten years, when he was obliged to retire on account of ill-health. He was married October 12, 1871, to Vine F. Gillson, born in Geauga County, Ohio, November 23, 1848, daughter of Willard and Sylva (Frisby) Gillson, natives of Vermont and early settlers of Geauga County, and who were the parents of six children: Norman, Luther, Flavilla, Frank L., Josephine and Anna. Mrs. Gillson is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Webb have one child—Roscoe J. Having a natural inclination for law, our subject began the study of the same in 1877, and was admitted to the bar at the January term of the Supreme Court in 1880, and opened an office in Garrettsville, where he has since remained in the practice of his profession. He has served the people of his township as Justice of the Peace one term of three years; is an active member of Garrettsville Lodge, No. 246, F. & A. M. Politically he is a strong advocate of the principles of the Republican party.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885