Worcester, John
clergyman, educator, author, was born Feb. 13, 1834, in Boston, Mass. He was pastor of the New Church society of Newtonville, Mass., in 1869, instructor of theology in the New Church Theological school, Boston, in 1878, and subsequently its president.
WORCESTER, JOSEPH EMERSON, lexicographer, philologist, author, was born Aug. 24, 1784, in Bedford, N. H. He was a distinguished lexicographer and philologist of Cambridge; and the author of Geographical Dictionary; Gazetteer of the United States; Sketches of the Earth and Its Inhabitants; Elements of History; Outlines of Scriptural Geography; and Comprehensive Primary Dictionary. His greatest work is his wellknown quarto Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1860. He died Oct. 27, 1865, in Cambridge, Mass.