Raised in Fredonia, New York, Charles L. Webster married SLC’s niece Annie Moffett in 1875. In 1881 SLC employed Webster to oversee the development of the Kaolatype process (for making engraved printing plates), in which he had heavily invested; given ever more duties, he soon became SLC’s general business manager. In 1884 SLC launched his own publishing house, putting Webster in charge and naming the firm “Charles L. Webster and Co.” This company published all of Mark Twain’s books from Huckleberry Finn (1885) to Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), as well as other works, including the successful Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885), but the company’s fortunes soon declined. SLC forced Webster to retire, ostensibly because of ill health, in 1888; he moved back to Fredonia and died there in 1891. The firm that bore his name declared bankruptcy in 1894.