California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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Webb W. Wilcox, active manager of the Hot Springs, was born at Elizabeth, Illinois, July 12, 
1881, a son of Samuel and Rosetta Wilcox. At the age of seventeen he had completed the 
course of the public schools. graduating from high school, and then for three years was 
employed in the lead mines near Elizabeth. Leaving Illinois, he came to California, locating at 
Nordhoff, with the expectation of ranching. Instead, he be- came connected with the Matilija 
Hot Springs, was there four months, and then took the position of assistant manager of 
Wheelers Hot Springs. eight miles north of Nordhoff. In 1997, after the death of Mr. Wheeler C. 
Blumberg, he took the entire management of the property, and in January, 1915, the business 
was incorporated, with Mr. Wilcox as president and manager.
He is a republican and of Presbyterian faith. At Wheelers Hot Springs on April 27, 1995, he 
married Miss Etta Blumberg. Their three children are : Warren N., aged ten ; Dorothy R., aged 
seven ; and Lester G., aged six, all of whom are attending the public schools at Nordhoff.