Amos Webber

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Amos Webber was born a free man of color near Philadelphia in 1826. He later worked in Philadelphia and then moved to Worcester where he worked at the Washburn and Moen Wire Company. He served in the Civil War, rising to Quartermaster Sergeant in the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry. After the war he returned to Worcester where he was active in a number of veterans and fraternal organizations until his death in 1904. Amos and his wife Lizzie, who also died in 1904, had the body of their son moved from Philadelphia to Worcester, and the three lie together. Webber's "memory books' are the basis of Nick Salvatore's 1996 book We All Got History.