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Webster, town (1990 pop. 16,196), Worcester co., S Mass., near the Conn. line; settled c.1713, set off from Dudley and Oxford and inc. 1832. The chief manufactures are footwear, fabrics, and textiles. The town was named for Daniel Webster Webster, Daniel, 1782–1852, American statesman, lawyer, and orator, b. Salisbury (now in Franklin), N.H.
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He graduated (1801) from Dartmouth College, studied law, and, after an interval as a schoolmaster, was admitted (1805) to ..... Click the link for more information. and became a textile center in the early 19th cent. through the efforts of Samuel Slater, a pioneer in the U.S. textile industry. Webster 1. Daniel. 1782--1852, US politician and orator 2. John. ?1580--?1625, English dramatist, noted for his revenge tragedies The White Devil (?1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (?1613) 3. Noah. 1758--1843, US lexicographer, famous for his American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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