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  2. Noah Webster - Wikipedia

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    His 1828 American Dictionary contained the greatest number of Biblical definitions given in any reference volume. Webster said of education, ... "Webster, Noah ...

  3. Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Noah Webster's assistant, and later chief competitor, Joseph Emerson Worcester, and Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich, published an abridgment of Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language in 1829, with the same number of words and Webster's full definitions, but with truncated literary references and expanded ...

  4. Henry Howe - Wikipedia

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    His father, Hezekiah Howe, published the first edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828. [2] The younger Howe learned the printing trade, and wrote for local newspapers. He went to New York to work in his uncle's bank. [3]

  5. Joseph Emerson Worcester - Wikipedia

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    Worcester's first edited dictionary was an abridgment of Samuel Johnson's English Dictionary, as Improved by Todd, and Abridged by Chalmers; with Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary Combined, published in the United States in 1827, [5] the year before Noah Webster's American Dictionary appeared. Having worked as an assistant on the production of ...

  6. Merriam-Webster - Wikipedia

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    It is the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States. [1] In 1831, George and Charles Merriam founded the company as G & C Merriam Co. in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1843, after Noah Webster died, the company bought the rights to An American Dictionary of the English Language from Webster's estate. All Merriam-Webster dictionaries ...

  7. Chauncey A. Goodrich - Wikipedia

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    Soon after the publication of the American Dictionary, by his father-in-law, Noah Webster (1828), Dr. Goodrich was entrusted by its author with power to superintend an abridgment of the work, which he did, conforming the orthography more nearly to the common standard. This edition, in the preparation of which he was assisted by Benjamin ...

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