Our 23rd Prosecutor was born in Marion, Ohio, the son of a Methodist Episcopal minister. He was educated in the Ohio public schools. He was an 1898 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, in Delaware, Ohio, where he studied law prior to reading the law in preparation for being admitted to the Ohio bar in 1898. Immediately thereafter, he moved to Toledo, where he remained throughout his life.

In 1904, Webster received an appointment as "Second Assistant Lucas County Prosecutor", a position he held until being elected Lucas County Prosecutor in 1909, by a margin of 3600 votes. It has been said that "Lucas County never had a more painstaking official than he who know fills the position of her legal representative." (Scribner, Vol. 2. p. 67).

Unfortunately, five years after the expiration of his term, Webster died in 1917 at the very young age of 41. A Memorial Service was held in his honor and was eulogized as follows:

"He was an able and fearless prosecuting attorney of our county and for many years, both as an assistant and as chief, he conducted the duties of the office with such consummate energy, ability, fidelity, and zeal that he not only commanded the confidence and esteem of all good people, but the fear and hatred of thieves. He had an old man's head upon a young man's shoulders...He was a lawyer who sometimes struck hard blows to opposing counsel, but they were always fair ones, coming straight from the shoulder and always landing above the belt." [Memorial Address, 3/13/17].