Eugene Webb, Leading Harlem Real Estate Broker, Dies at 102
Raised in Alabama, he made his fortune in New York and became a banker, civic leader and developer.
Eugene H. Webb, center, in 1980 with George M. Brooker, right, with whom he founded a major New York real estate firm in 1968. At left is Eugene Giscombe, vice president of Webb & Brooker.Credit.Ellan Young
May 13, 2021
Eugene H. Webb, who was raised in racially segregated Alabama with modest ambitions, but who after transplanting himself to Harlem established what became the nation’s largest Black-owned real estate management company, died on April 5 at his home in Mount Vernon, N.Y. He was 102.
Out of the past
May 11, 1896
Sidney remains today without a fire chief despite the 28 ballots taken during the meeting of council last night for the specific purpose of electing a chief. None of the four nominated for the position received the required majority of all votes cast by members of council. Nominated for the position were: George Covil, Jasper Wade, Charles Eisenstein, and J.H. McClung. After the unsuccessful attempt to name a fire chief, council adjourned until next Monday night.
100 Years
May 11, 1921
Through the efforts of a committee appointed by the Kiwanis club, B.O. Worrell, former leader of the Sidney band, has agreed to meet with them next Wednesday to discuss the possibility of returning and taking charge of a new band for Sidney. Mr. Worrell is at present located at Ottumwa, Iowa, directing symphony concerts.
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May 10
1890 - A newly rebuilt Put-in-Bay House on South Bass Island reopens on the site of the previous hotel that was leveled by flames.
1902 - A mob of mourners converges on Forest Cemetery as six of seven of the young people who lost their lives in a boating tragedy on the Maumee River are laid to rest. The Toledo Bee reports as many as 2,000 morbid curiosity seekers packed the city graveyard and trampled the sacred ground, picked flowers and gathered other relics . The article stated they almost turned it into a circus atmosphere with laughing and disrespect. The Bee called the crowd disgusting .