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Webster's wife, Rebecca Greenleaf Webster. Noah Webster married Rebecca Greenleaf (1766–1847) on October 26, 1789, in New Haven, Connecticut. They had eight children: Emily Schotten (1790–1861), who married William W. Ellsworth and was named by Webster as an executor of his will. [28]
Emily Webster Born in Windsor on November 10, 1791, Ellsworth was the son of Founding Father Oliver Ellsworth , and son-in-law of Noah Webster , who named Ellsworth executor of his will. His twin brother was Henry Leavitt Ellsworth , first Commissioner of the United States Patent Office.
Established in 1719, it was the town's first cemetery, and its only burying ground for about seventy years. Many of West Hartford's prominent early settlers are buried here, including Noah Webster Sr. and his wife Mercy (parents to the more famous Noah Webster). The oldest portion of the cemetery remained in regular use until 1868, with the ...
Webster's wife, Grace, died in January 1828 due to a cancerous tumor, [191] and Webster suffered another loss when his brother, Ezekiel, died in April 1829. [192] In December 1829, Webster married Caroline LeRoy, the 32-year-old daughter of New York merchant Herman LeRoy. They remained married until Webster's death, and she lived until 1882.
John Webster (bef August 16, 1590 – April 5, 1661) was an early colonial settler of New England, serving one term as governor of the Colony of Connecticut in 1656. Early life [ edit ]
When Daniel Webster died in 1852, Caroline received $100,000 (about $3.7 million in 2023) which was invested for her benefit. [4] Thirty years later after Daniel Webster's death, Caroline LeRoy Webster died in her home in New York City after increasing illness and pneumonia. She died on February 26, 1882, in her bed.
Noah Webster - lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author; the "Father of American Scholarship and Education"; taught at Episcopal Academy for six months from April 1787 [28]
Noah Webster ("American Men of Letters," 1882) A History of the United States of America Preceded By a Narrative of the Discovery and Settlement of North America and of the Events Which Led to the Independence of the Thirteen English Colonies for the Use of Schools and Academies (1884 and later editions) History of the United States (1884)