Noah Webster, Jr. "(October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843), was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read,…At age fourteen, his church pastor began tutoring him in Latin and Greek to prepare him for entering Yale College. Webster enrolled at Yale just before his 16th birthday...Webster dedicated his Speller and Dictionary to providing an intellectual foundation for American nationalism From 1787 to 1789. Webster was an outspoken supporter of the new Constitution...In 1806, Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.. in 1808 he became a convert to Calvinistic orthodoxy, and thereafter became a devout Congregationalist who preached the need to Christianize the nation…His 1828 American Dictionary contained the greatest number of Biblical definitions given in any reference volume. Webster considered education "useless without the Bible." Webster released his own edition of the Bible in 1833, called the Common Version. He used the King James Version (KJV) as a base and consulted the Hebrew and Greek along with various other versions and commentaries…In 1834, he published an apologetic book in defense of The Bible and Christianity itself...Webster helped found the Connecticut Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1791."
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