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Webster| Town in Worcester County, central Massachusetts; population (2000 est) 16,400. It is situated on the French River and Lake Chaubunagungamaug, 29 km/18 mi south of Worcester, along the Connecticut state border. It was incorporated in 1832. |
| The town is named after the orator and statesman Daniel Webster. A textile producer since 1811, Webster has also manufactured shoes. |
Webster| Town in Monroe County, west New York; population (1990) 31,600. It is situated along Lake Ontario and lies northeast of Rochester across Irondequoit Bay. An industrial and residential suburb, it has corporate research facilities as well as plants producing metal products and canned goods. There is some summer tourism. |
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Ball, Thomas
Boscawen
Dekker, Thomas
Goodrich, Chauncey Allen
March, Francis Andrew
New Hampshire
Stone and Webster
Stone, Charles A
Webster City
Webster Groves
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Webster, Beveridge
Webster, Daniel
Webster, Edwin S
Webster, Margaret
Webster, William H
Whig Party
Winthrop, Robert Charles
Worcester, Joseph E
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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. Shakspere's later contemporaries, under Elizabeth and James I: Jonson, Chapman, Dekker, Heywood, Middleton, Marston, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster. 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. |