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Webster, John R

lawyer, was born Dec. 25, 1860, in Rutledge, Tenn. He received his education at the university of Tennessee; and has become one of the foremost lawyers of the west at Boise City, Idaho. Prior to his moving to Idaho he practiced his profession in Kansas, and during 1887-91 was clerk of Morton county.

Webster, John White

educator, chemist, author, was born May 20, 1793, in Boston, Mass. He was a chemist who was professor at Harvard university in 1824-50, and was tried and executed in 1850 for the murder of Dr. Parkman. He was the author of Description of the Island of St. Michael; and Manual of Chemistry. He died Aug. 30, 1850, in Boston, Mass.

Webster, Nathan Burnham

educator, author, was born June 13, 1821, in Unity, N. H. He is an educator of Norfolk, Va.; and the author of Outlines of Chemistry.

Webster, Noah

lexicographer, author, was born Oct. 16, 1758, in Hartford, Conn. He was a famous lexicographer, best known by his Spelling Book and his American Dictionary of the English Language. Among his other works are included A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language; The Prompter, or Common Sayings and Subjects; Rights of Neutrals; Dissertations on the English Language; and A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806). He died May 28, 1843, in New Haven, Conn.

Webster, Pelatiah

economist, author, was born in 1725 in Lebanon, Conn. He was a once famous political economist of Philadelphia; and the author of Essays on Free Trade and Finance; Essay on Credit; and Political Essay on the Nature and Operation of Money. He died in September, 1795, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Webster, Prentiss

lawyer, author, was born May 24, 1851, in Lowell, Mass.

He has been United States consul to Germany; and is the author of Law of Citizenship in the United States; and Law of Naturalization in the United States, and of Other Countries.

Webster, Richard

clergyman, author, was born July 14, 1811, in Albany, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Mauch Chunk in 1835-56; and the author of History of the Presbyterian Church in America till 1760. He died June 19, 1856, in Mauch Chunk, Pa.

Webster, Taylor

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He settled in Ohio; and was elected a representative in congress from Ohio from 1833 to 1839.

Webster, Warren

physician, surgeon, author, was born March 7, 1835, in Gilmanton, N. H. He was an army surgeon during the civil war; and is the author of The Army Medical Staff; and Sympathetic Diseases of the Eye, from the German of Mauthner.

Weed, Annie W

lecturer, author, poet, was born June 18, 1833, in Canada.

She is a successful lecturer of Rose, N.

Y.; and the author of Isidore; and The Pathway to the Rifted Rock.

Weed, Clarence Moores

educator, author, was born in 1864 in Ohio. He is a professor of zoölogy and entomology at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, Durham, N. H. He is the author of Ten New England Blossoms and their Insect Visitors; Insects and Insecticides; Fungi and Fungicides; and Spraying Crops.

Weed, Edwin Gardner

bishop of Florida, was born July 23, 1847, in Savannah, Ga. He was consecrated third bishop of Florida in St. John's church, Jacksonville, Fla., on Aug. 11, 1886.