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Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building

It was built as a memorial to the Museum's founder, Electra Havemeyer Webb, and her husband, James Watson Webb.

General Webb

James Watson Webb (1802–1884), United States army general, diplomat, newspaper publisher and a New York politician

James Watson Webb

"In Paris and Rio de Janeiro, on land or sea", wrote Abraham Lincoln's biographer, Carl Sandburg, Webb "believed that Lincoln should have appointed him major general, rating himself a grand strategist, having fought white men in duels and red men in frontier war."

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The term of duress was two years in Sing Sing, but Governor William H. Seward pardoned him before he went behind bars, in return for which Webb named one of his sons "William Seward Webb".

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