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WEBSTER , a township of See also:

Worcester See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the See also:

French See also:

RIVER

river, about 16 m. S.S.W. of Worcester. Pop. (1890) 7031; (1900) 8804, of whom 3562 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1910 See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census), 11,509. See also:

LAND

Land See also:

AREA

area (1906), 12.19 sq. m. Webster is served by the New See also:

York, New Haven & See also:

HARTFORD

Hartford, and the See also:

Boston & See also:

Albany See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by interurban electric lines. In the township is See also:

Lake Chaubunagungamaug, a beautiful See also:

SHEET

sheet of See also:

WATER

water about 2 sq. m. in area. The manufacture of textiles and of boots and shoes is the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry; the See also:

TOTAL

total value of the factory product in 1905 was $5,867,769. Webster was founded by See also:

SAMUEL

Samuel See also:

Slater (1768—1835), who in 1812 built See also:

cotton-See also:

mills and in 1815—1816 began the manufacture of woollen See also:

CLOTH

cloth. The township, named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

Daniel Webster, was erected in 1832 from See also:

COMMON

common lands and from parts of See also:

Dudley and See also:

Oxford townships, which before the cotton-mills were built here were almost uninhabited. See See also:

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL (18o9-1894)

Holmes Ammidown, See also:

HISTORICAL

Historical Collections (New York, 1874), vol. i. pp. 461-524.

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