Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the Noah Webster House in western Hartford, Connecticut Colony, during the colonial-era. The area of his birth later became West Hartford, Connecticut. He was born into an establishe… See more

Webster lacked clear career plans after graduating from Yale in 1779, later writing that a liberal arts education "disqualifies a man for business". He taught school briefly in Glastonbury, but the working conditions were hars… See more

Noah Webster married Rebecca Greenleaf (1766–1847) on October 26, 1789, in New Haven, Connecticut. They had eight children:
• Emily Schotten (1790–1861), who married William W. … See more

As a teacher, Webster grew dissatisfied with American elementary schools. They could be overcrowded, with up to seventy children of all ages crammed into one-room schoolhouses.They suffered from poorly paid staff, l… See more

In 1806, Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. By 1807, he began work on a more extensive dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language, … See more