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Martin Luther Webb (II)
Full name : Martin Luther Webb
Alternate spellings, aliases : Known as Lute by his family and friends; known
as Marty by his co-workers at the IRS.
Parents :
Father : Harvey Hayes Webb
Mother : Mabel Ellis
Date of Birth : 29 May 1916
Place of Birth : Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
[click here to see a copy of his birth certificate]
Spouse :
Name : Hazel Jesse Skelly
Date of Marriage : 5 September 1942
Place of Marriage : St. Louis, Missouri
Died :
Date of Death : evening of
Sunday, 24 January 1971
Place of Death : 1620 Milbank Drive, Florissant, Missouri
Burial Information : wake held 10:00AM Tuesday
27 January 1971, Ferguson United Methodist Church, 15 Wesley Avenue, St.
Louis, Missouri
Cause
of Death : heart attack; artery disease
Notes : Obituary – Martin L. Webb Rites Wednesday; Ex-IRS Official. Funeral services for Martin L. Webb,
former assistant director for the Internal Revenue Service here, will be at 10
a.m. Wednesday at the Ferguson United Methodist Church, 15 Wesley ave. Burial will be in Memorial Park
Cemetery. Mr. Webb, 54, died of a
heart attack Sunday at his home at 1620 Milbank dr., Florissant. Since March 1, 1970, Mr. Webb served as
assistant district director for the IRS in central and southern Illinois. He commuted between Springfield and his
Florissant home. A Springfield,
Mo., native, Mr. Webb joined the IRS as a special agent in 1939 in Kansas
City. He served as assistant
district director for St. Louis from 1960 to 1964. He had also served as district director for North
Dakota. During his 30 years of
federal service, Mr. Webb received a number of commendations for performing
special duties.- Mr. Webb is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Hazel Skelly webb, and two daughters, Susan and Mrs.
William Deiss, both of St. Louis.
[click here to see an image of a clipping of an obituary from a
different newspaper]
[click here to see am image of his obituary from the cover of
Revenews, Volume IX, Number 2, Midwest Region-IRS, April 1971]
Education :
Elementary : Phelps School;
Springfield, Missouri
Graduated : January 1928
Middle
School : Jarrett Junior High; Springfield,
Missouri
Graduated : January 1931
High
School : Senior High; Springfield, Missouri
Graduated : May 1933
College
: Southwest Missouri State College; Springfield, Missouri
Graduated : May 1937
Post-graduate
: Graduate School of Commerce; Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois
Graduated : June 1938
Military
Training : Combat Engineer Training; ERTC, Fort Leonard Wood,
Missouri
Graduated : January 1942
Military
Training : Counter Intelligence Corp Investigator School; Chicago,
Illinois
Graduated : May 1942
Military
Training : Officers Candidate School, Infantry School; Fort Benning,
Georgia
Graduated : December 1942
Other
: School of Law; St. Louis, Missouri
Graduated : unknown
Notes
: I have an image of Martin in High School (image) and a picture Martin in
Company C, 2nd Platoon, 26 Engineer Training Battalion, Fort Leonard Wood,
Missouri taken November 1941 (image).
Military
Service : Second World War, allies
[Click here to see a details of his service in the Army]
Civilian Occupation1: Accountant
and Auditor
Place
: Springfield, Missouri
From
: mid-1930's
Name
and Address of Employer : The Harvey H. Webb Company; Springfield, Missouri
Civilian Occupation2 : Special
Agent, Assistant District Director, District Directo, Treasury
Department (IRS)
Place
: St. Louis, Missouri (also Kansas City, Missouri 1940 - 1941)
From
: December 1940 - 1970
Name
and Address of Employer : originally 1940 -Intelligence Unit, Bureau Internal Revenue,
Room 428, Old Custom House, St. Louis, Missouri
Occupational Specialty : Criminal
Investigation
Title of Position : Special Agent
Principal
Duties : Criminal Investigation of attempted evasion of income and other
federal taxes, for evidence to prosecute, investigation of applicants for
employment in Bureau, investigation of charges against employees of Bureau,
both criminal and administrative misconduct and other investigations as
directed.
Notes
: also - Treasury Agent, Director of Intelligence, Director of Investigations
(1940 - 1971); Internal Revenue Service, Kansas City, Missouri, Chicago,
Illinois and Fargo, North Dakota.
[From
(unknown) newspaper, Fargo, North Dakota (January 1965?) : New Revenue
Service District Chief Sworn] “Martin
L. Webb was sworn in by U.S. District Judge Ronald N. Davies Monday as the new
director of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the District of North
Dakota. Webb succeeds Byron J.
Rockwood whose retirement was effective Dec. 31, 1964. Homer O. Croasmun, Chicago, regional
commissioner of IRS, in a brief address described the Treasury Department
method of selecting directors and assistant directors for districts. He said that Webb competed against all
the assistant directors in the country in a merit and testing system to win his
new position. Webb said he
realizes the tremendous responsibility of heading up a district. He said he would bring all the
resources at his command to the job.
He thanked members of the IRS staff for attending the swearing-in
ceremony. The federal court room
was filled with IRS employees.
Webb began his career with the IRS in the Kansas City, Mo., office in
1940 as a special agent in the intelligence unit. He has remained with the Treasury Department since that
time, except for about four years when he served with the Army. At first an enlisted man, he rose
to the rank of captain and served for the most part in military
intelligence. He served with the
Manhattan Engineers District, later known as the Atomic Bomb Project. Webb comes here from the St. Louis
District where he served as assistant director. He is a graduate of
South-western Missouri State College, later doing postgraduate work at
Northwestern University and St. Louis University. He studied law at St. Louis U.”
[From Revenews : St. Louis District
Internal Revenue Service, March 1971 (district newsletter) : Gallatin
Award Presented to Mrs. Martin L. Webb (extract)] “Mr. Alvin M. Kelley, Regional
Commissioner, visited the St. Louis District on Thursday, March 4th and
presented the Gallatin Award on behalf of the Treasury Department to Mrs.
Martin L. Webb. The award was in
recognition of Mr. Martin L. Webb’s 30 years of meritorious service in the
Internal Revenue Service.”
Religion : Methodist
Place of Worship : Ferguson United Methodist Church, 15 Wesley Avenue,
St. Louis, Missouri
Family (brothers and sisters) : image (380k jpeg) Martin
had two daughters.
Source material, bibliography
:
Selective Service Registration
Card of M. L. Webb, Local Board, 1st Precinct, Campbell Ward, Green
County, Missouri, 10 October 1940
Military Intelligence ID Badge
of Capt. M. L. Webb, Special Agent of Counter Intelligence Corps,
Badge No. 347, Washington, DC, 9 January 1943 (facsimile)
Manhattan Engineers District ID
Card of Capt. M. L. Webb, No. 120, issued 1 January 1944
Officer Qualification Record, by 1st
Lieutenant Martin Luther Webb, New York, New York, 10 February 1944
Manhattan District Production
Award, issued by General Leslie Groves, Los Alamos, New Mexico,
10 October 1945
Atomic Energy for Military
Purposes, Henry DeWolf Smyth, Princeton, Princeton University
Press, 1945
201 File of Captain Martin L.
Webb, U.S. Army 201 File (discharge and travel papers),
February 1946
Officer Directory, Manhattan
District; Oak Ridge, Tennessee 30 June 1946 (facsimile)
Manual, Counter Intelligence
Corps Investigator, CIC Corps School, Camp Holabird, Maryland, 1 June
1949
Reserve Officers Qualification
and Availability Questionnaire, Captain Martin Luther Webb,
St. Louis, Missouri, 21 May 1951
Counter Intelligence Corps
History and Mission in World War II; The CIC School, Fort Holabird,
Baltimore, Maryland; courtesy US Army Military History Institute, Carlisle
Barracks, Pennsylvania (facsimile)
Honorable Discharge Certificate
of Captain M. L. Webb, USAR, 2 April 1953
Obituary for M. L. Webb, St.
Louis Post Dispatch; St. Louis, Missouri, 26 January 1971
Hazel Webb Letter; letter
to Jonathan Webb Deiss by Hazel Webb, widow of Martin Luther Webb, written in
St. Louis, Missouri, Sunday, 11 January 1981
Personal communication with
Hazel Skelly Webb, Kathleen Webb Ackerson, and Susan Webb Williams, St.
Louis, Missouri and Washington, DC, 1981 - 2001, ongoing
Photos of M. L. Webb,
courtesy of Hazel Skelly Webb, St. Louis, Missouri, November 2000
Counter Intelligence in World
War Two. http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/docs/ci2/2ch1_a.htm
| Webb’s Removed West || Webb’s in the Military – Webb Gallery – Webb Settlement |
compiled by Jonathan Webb Deiss, 2000, 2001, 2003
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