Webster com­posed and per­formed pop­u­lar mu­sic. He stud­ied with Low­ell Ma­son and was act­ive mus­ic­al­ly in New York, New Jer­sey and Con­nec­ti­cut, and di­rect­ed a quar­tet com­pa­ny called the “Eu­ter­pe­ans.”  In 1851, he moved to Mad­i­son, In­d­i­ana, fol­lowed by Chi­ca­go, Ill­i­nois (1855); Ra­cine, Wis­con­sin (1856); and fin­al­ly Elk­horn, Wis­con­sin (1859). Web­ster wrote over a thou­sand bal­lads and ma­ny hymns dur­ing his life­time. His works include:

• The Sig­net Ring (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, 1868)

Sources

Music

1. In the Sweet By and By