Noah webster children

Noah Webster, Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843), was the author of a famous American dictionary, a pioneer of spelling, and a political writer and editor. His "Blue-backed Speller" books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read.^[1] His dictionary was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.

Copyright

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Webster worried that his Grammatical Institute might be pirated. He had to seek copyright protection from each state. At last, on May 31, 1790, President George Washington signed the United States’ first general copyright act into law. Later, Webster lobbied for an extended copyright law. He wrote “By this bill the term of copy-right is secured for 28 years, with the right of renewal … for 14 years more. If this should become law, I shall be much benefited.” The new federal copyright law was passed and remained in effect until 1909.

Webster's books

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The Blue-backed Speller

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  Noah Webster

  Founders of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences: Five-Minute Profiles

  Noah Webster, Jr., 1758-1843
  Presented by Liz Wolf on October 16, 2013

  When the President asked me to say something about an early member of the Academy, I wondered whom I should choose.

  As you may know, the Academy has been publishing member’s “transactions”, and also “memoirs” (organized in “volumes”). The very first memoir on the list is Volume 1, Article 1 (1810) by Noah Webster: “A Dissertation on the Supposed Change in the Temperature of Winter”, which is a topic people are still discussing over two hundred years later.  So I chose Noah Webster.

  He was born in 1758 on October 16, so today we are celebrating his 255th birthday.  He went to Yale and graduated in the great class of 1778.  That same year Ezra Stiles became President of Yale.  President Stiles greatly favored starting Academies for discussion of topics of interest and importance in this new country as was common in Europe, like England’s Royal Societies.

  There was some tension between Yale and the

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  About Us

  Noah Webster and America's First Dictionary

  Born in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1758, Noah Webster came of age during the American Revolution and was a strong advocate of the Constitutional Convention. He believed fervently in the developing cultural independence of the United States, a chief part of which was to be a distinctive American language with its own idiom, pronunciation, and style.

  In 1806 Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, the first truly American dictionary. For more information on this milestone in American reference publishing, please see Noah Webster's Spelling Reform and A Sample Glossary from A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. Immediately thereafter he went to work on his magnum opus, An American Dictionary of the English Language, for which he learned 26 languages, including Anglo-Saxon and Sanskrit, in order to research the origins of his own country's tongue. This book, published in 1828, embodied a new standard of lexicography; it was a dictionary with 70,000 entries that was felt by many