James Wood Webb was a prominent business owner of the Webb Grain Mill Company in McKinney. It was sold in the 1940's, leaving the dormant grain elevators as ghosts of McKinney's history.

 In 1913 he was an active member of the MISD Board of Trustees.  Out of this group came the names of three of McKinney's elementary schools:  J. W. Webb, J. L. Greer (now ACT Academy), and Fanny Finch.  Mr. Webb donated three acres of the land on which the school is built on today, another six acres were donated by the Confederate Union

His generosity and interest in bringing McKinney into the future are clear through his act of donating land for the school itself.  His service on the school board speaks of a man who felt that education was a priority and deserved a large amount of his time and effort.