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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 the
..... 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)
1.Webster - Webster's Dictionary.
2.Webster - A World-Wide Web browser for the Acorn Archimedes. The HTML files may reside locally or be retrieved using a "fetcher". An HTTP fetcher for use with KA9Q is supplied.

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I found him lying at anchor on the Alameda side of the estuary near the Webster Street bridge, with visitors aboard, whom he was entertaining with afternoon wine.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
Shakspere's later contemporaries, under Elizabeth and James I: Jonson, Chapman, Dekker, Heywood, Middleton, Marston, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
The mayor of the village, in delivering the prize to the author of it, made a warm speech in which he said that it was by far the most "eloquent" thing he had ever listened to, and that Daniel Webster himself might well be proud of it.
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