Draft:John Lee Webb

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John Lee Webb (September 17, 1877 - August 30, 1946) was a businessman and philanthropist in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu4wfGwy2ro

Itinerant preacher B. L. Webb was his father. He studied at Tuskegee Institute. Played football and baseball there. Volunteeree during the Spanish American War and served as a color bearer.

Woodmen of Union Building (relocated from Jackson, Mississippi)

He did carpentry work at Tuskegee Institute, in Louisiana, and elsewhere.

He married Carrie Elaine Branson.

Sutton E. Griggs wrote about him in Triumph of the Simple Virtues; or the Life Story of John Lee Webb. The Messenger published it in 1926. Cheryl Batts wrote a book about him.