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Noah Webster
American, 1758 - 1843
Noah Webster married Rebecca Greenleaf in 1789; they had eight children. They lived in New Haven, Connecticut, then in Amherst, Massachusetts. In Amherst, Webster helped found Amherst College. Eventually, the family moved to West Hartford, Connecticut. At age 43, Webster began writing the first American dictionary, in order to standardize American spelling, pronunciation, and word usage. After 27 years, the dictionary was completed in 1828; it contained 70,000 words. Noah Webster died in 1843.
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American, founded 1831