Editing Clifton Webb (section)

==Early life==
Webb was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck in [[Indianapolis]], Indiana, the only child of Jacob Grant Hollenbeck (1867&nbsp;– May 2, 1939), the ticket-clerk son of a grocer from an Indiana farming family, and his wife, the former Mabel A. Parmelee (March 24, 1869&nbsp;– October 17, 1960), the daughter of David Parmelee, a railroad conductor, and his wife, Grace ({{nee}} Saville). Webb's parents married in [[Kankakee, Illinois]] on January 18, 1888 and separated in 1891, shortly after their son's birth.<ref>Illinois Marriage Collection, 1800–1941; www.ancestry.com, accessed September 25, 2010</ref> According to Marion County, Indiana, records, the marriage took place in Indianapolis.

In 1892, Webb's mother, now styling herself "Mabelle", moved to New York City with her beloved "little Webb", as she called him for the remainder of her life. She dismissed questions about her husband, Jacob, who like her father, worked for the [[Indianapolis, Indiana|Indianapolis]]-[[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]] Railroad, by saying, "We never speak of him. He didn't care for the theatre." The couple apparently divorced, since, by 1900, Mabelle was married to Green B. Raum, Jr. New York City's 1900 U.S. census indicates Mabelle and her son were using the surname Raum and living on West 77th Street with Green Berry Raum, Jr., a copper-foundry worker, who gave his position in the household as Mabel's husband.<ref>Also living with them was Mabelle's mother, Grace S. Parmelee. Information from 1900 U.S. Federal Census viewed on ancestry.com, September 25, 2010. The 1910 U. S. federal census shows that Mabelle Hollenbeck and Green Raum had been married since 1897; he had formerly been married to Annie Iredell Rogers in 1890 (separated 1891, divorced 1894). Raum Jr. died in 1914.</ref> Green B. Raum Jr. was the son of General [[Green Berry Raum]], former U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue and former U.S. Commissioner of Pensions. Webb's father, Jacob, married his second wife, Ethel Brown, and he died in 1939.<ref>1910 U.S. Federal Census accessed on ancestry.com on September 25, 2010.</ref>