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The grave of Noah Webster is marked by a 20' high granite obelisk resting on a 3' high by 4' wide square base. The square base is inscribed: WEBSTER. The shaft of the obelisk is inscribed:

Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758 in West Hartford, CT. He graduated from Yale College in 1778. He taught school for a while and then studied law under Oliver Ellsworth, passing the bar examination in 1781.

Noah Webster has become, literally, a household name for over 100 years. Before Webster there was no standard for spelling in the United States. He addressed this problem by compiling the first dictionary in America. Over his lifetime he published 385 editions of the "Blue-Backed Speller", first published in 1783, which was used to teach generations of Americans to read.

Politically, Webster was a Federalist. He founded and was the editor of America's first daily newspaper the American Minerva. Later he published the semi-weekly paper The Herald, A Gazette for the Country to become The New York Spectator. In his later years Webster became a devout Congregationalist. He wrote a Collection of Essays and Fugitive Writings on Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary Subjects (1790) and Value of The Bible and Excellence of the Christian Religion (1834).

Noah Webster died on May 28, 1843 and is buried in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, CT.

The writings of Noah Webster as published in the Biblio Website Link

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
A Brief History Of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases
A Burial In Portugal
A Collection Of Essays and Fugitive Writings
A Collection Of Papers On Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects
A Common-School Dictionary Of the English Language Explanatory Pronouncing and Synonymous
A Compendious Dictionary Of the English Language
A Dictionary For Primary Schools
A Dictionary Of the English Language
A Dictionary Of the English Language, Explanatory, Pronouncing, Etymological, and Synonymous
A Flight From Paris
A Grammatical Institute Of the English Language
A Grammatical Institute Of the English Language, Comprising, an Easy, Concise, and Systematic Method Of Education, Designed For the Use Of English Schools In America
A High-School Dictionary Of the English Language Explanatory, Pronouncing, and Synonymous
A High-School Pronouncing Dictionary Of the English Language
A Killing In Malta
A Legacy From Tenerife
A Manual Of Useful Studies
A Manual Of Useful Studies For the Instruction Of Young Persons Of Both Sexes
A Pay-Off In Switzerland
A Philosophical and Practical Grammar Of the English Language
A Primary School Dictionary Of the English Language
A Primary School Dictionary Of the English Language, Explanatory, Pronouncing, and Synonymous
A Problem In Prague
A Witchdance In Bavaria
American Dictionary Of the English Language
An American Selection Of Lessons In Reading and Speaking
Calculated To Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste Of Youth
An American Selection Of Lessons In Reading Speaking
An American Selection Of Lessons In Reading and Speaking
Calculated To Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste Of Youth and Also To Instruct Them In History, and Politics Of the United States
An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary Of the English Language An Improved Grammar Of the English Language
An Incident In Iceland
Biography For the Use Of Schools
Dissertations On the English Language
Elements Of Useful Knowledge Volume I
Elements Of Useful Knowledge, Vol II
Flickering Death
History Of Animals
History Of the United States
Letters Of Noah Webster
Letters To a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education
Miscellaneous Papers On Political and Commercial Subjects
Noah Webster's Advice To the Young
Noah Webster's Advice To the Young and Moral Catechism
Noah Webster's British American Illustrated Spelling Reading Book
Noah Webster's First Edition Of an American Dictionary Of the English Language
Observations On Language and On the Errors Of Classbooks
On Being American Selected Writings, 1783-1828
Rudiments Of English Grammar
Sentimental and Humourous Essays, Conducive To Economy and Happiness Drawn From Common Sayings and Subjects
Spanish Maze Game, The
The American Spelling Book
The American Spelling Book Containing the Rudiments Of the English Language
The Autobiographies Of Noah Webster
The Elementary Spelling Book
The Elementary Spelling Book, Being and Improvement On the American Spelling Book
The Elementary Spellingbook, Being an Improvement On the American Spelling Book
The Modern School and Office Dictionary Of the English Language
The New Testament In the Common Version
The Original Blue Back Speller
The Prompter
The Revolution In France
The Teacher
The Webster Bible
Value Of the Bible and Excellence Of the Christian Religion
Webster's Academic Dictionary
Webster's Elementary-School Dictionary
Webster's International Dictionary
Webster's New School and Office Dictionary
Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary Of the English Language - Unabridged
Webster's New World Dictionary
Webster's New World Dictionary Of the American Language
Webster's Primary School Dictionary
Webster's Pronouncing Dictionary Of the English Language
Critically Revised, With Diss By Pa Nuttall
Webster's Secondary-School Dictionary
Webster's Self-Pronouncing Vest Pocket Dictionary, 51,200 Words