As Joseph Webster was doing business in Kentucky, he saw slavery and didn't like what he saw and became an abolitionist. Madison, being located on the Ohio River, directly across from Kentucky, also had strong pro-slavery views (as well as abolitionist).
Once Webster's views were known, he began receiving threats on his life. One incident where Webster was called upon to fix a church's organ on a late Saturday night, he was attacked by a man with a dagger, but able to defend himself.
That was the final straw. The family moved north to Chicago in 1855 and a short time later to Racine, Wisconsin. The lake air aggravated Webster's chronic bronchitis and 1859, they moved away from the lake to Elkhorn, Wisconsin, where they settled permanently.
--Old Secesh
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