Noah Webster
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Noah Webster was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Educa
Portrait by James Herring, 1833
A portrait of Webster by Samuel Morse
Webster's home in New Haven, Connecticut, where he wrote An American Dictionary of the English Language; the home was later relocated to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
Webster's wife, Rebecca Greenleaf Webster
Webster's Dictionary
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Webster's Dictionary is any of the American English dictionaries edited in the early 19th century by American lexicographer Noah Webster, as well as numerous related or unrelated dictionaries that hav
Noah Webster
…to teach American children how to spell and read. He is also the author for the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language. Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, Webster graduated from Yale College in 1778. He passed the bar examination after studying law under Oliver Ellsworth…
Title page of the 1828 first edition of An American Dictionary of the English Language featuring an engraving of Noah Webster
Advertisement for the New International Dictionary from the October 8, 1910, issue of The Saturday Evening Post
Merriam-Webster's eleventh edition of the Collegiate Dictionary
Merriam-Webster company stationery, Massachusetts, 1901