When we turn to Noah Webster we find him helpful as usual.

* 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.

One particular contribution towards formalizing these differences came from Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary ( published 1828 ) with the intention of showing that people in the United States spoke a different dialect from Britain, much like a regional accent.

Contemporary scholars and patriots such as Noah Webster, John Trumbull, and Joel Barlow were instrumental in securing the passage of these statutes.

* 1793 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.

Another American admirer was lexicographer Noah Webster.

* Noah Webster

* Noah Webster ( October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843 )

Noah Webster painted by Samuel F. B. Morse

His father, Noah Sr. ( 1722 – 1813 ), was a descendant of Connecticut Governor John Webster ; his mother Mercy ( née Steele ; 1727 – 1794 ) was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony.

Politician Daniel Webster was Noah Webster ’ s cousin.

The first major statutory revision of U. S. copyright law, the 1831 Act was a result of intensive lobbying by Noah Webster and his agents in Congress.

Noah Webster, The Schoolmaster of the Republic.

Noah Webster 4-cent United States Postal Service | United States stamp, 1958

On May 28, 1843, a few days after he had completed revising an appendix to the second edition, and with much of his efforts with the dictionary still unrecognized, Noah Webster died.

Rebecca Greenleaf Webster, wife of Noah Webster

Noah Webster married Rebecca Greenleaf ( 1766 – 1847 ) on October 26, 1789, New Haven, Connecticut.

* " Noah Webster " in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes ( 1907 – 21 ).

* Bynack, Vincent P. " Noah Webster and the Idea of a National Culture: the Pathologies of Epistemology.

" Webster, Noah ," Dictionary of American Biography, Volume 10 ( 1936 )

Noah Webster and the American Dictionary ( 2005 )

* Morgan, John S. Noah Webster ( 1975 ), popular biography

* 1913 – Noah Beery, Jr., American actor ( d. 1994 )

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

* Homer D. Babbidge, Jr., ed., Noah Webster: On Being American ( 1967 ), selections from his writings

** Noah Beery Jr., American actor ( d. 1994 )

It stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney, Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele and Noah Beery, Jr.

* Noah Beery Jr. as Whit

The film also starred Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey, John Ireland, Hank Worden, Noah Beery Jr. and Harry Carey, Jr. Borden Chase wrote the script with Charles Schnee, based on Chase's original story ( which was first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1946 as " Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail ").

* Noah Beery Jr. as Buster McGee

* Noah Beery Jr. as Buck Lipscomb

Elected officers were Moses Bascom Jr. as town clerk and treasurer, Moses Bascom, William Smalley and Noah Munn as selectmen and assessors, and David Squires as constable.

He was the brother of actor Noah Beery, Sr. and uncle of actor Noah Beery Jr.

Nephew Noah Beery, Jr.

* 20 Mule Team ( 1940 ) with Anne Baxter and Noah Beery, Jr.

Veteran character actor Noah Beery, Jr. played Rockford's father, Joseph " Rocky " Rockford, while Gretchen Corbett portrayed Rockford's lawyer and sometime lover, Beth Davenport, until she left the series over a salary dispute with the studio.

The powerfully frenetic opening theme song from the original series was rerecorded and slowed to a mournfully funereal pace, and practically everyone in the original cast of recurring characters returned for the new episodes except Noah Beery, Jr., who had died in the interim.

* Noah Beery, Jr., actor

In 1970, he had a starring role as Little Fauss in the cult motorcycle racing movie Little Fauss and Big Halsy with Robert Redford, Noah Beery Jr., Lucille Benson, and Lauren Hutton.

From the late 1940s he played in more prestigious pictures, including Captain from Castile starring Tyrone Power, Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart, ( 1948 ), Lust for Gold with Glenn Ford ( 1949 ), Broken Arrow ( 1950 ) with James Stewart, War Arrow ( 1953 ) with Maureen O ' Hara, Jeff Chandler and Noah Beery, Jr., Drums Across the River ( 1954 ), Walk the Proud Land ( 1956 ) with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft, Alias Jesse James ( 1959 ) with Bob Hope, and Indian Paint ( 1964 ) with Johnny Crawford.

Noah Porter, Jr. ( December 14, 1811 – March 4, 1892 ) was an American academic, philosopher, author, lexicographer and President of Yale College ( 1871 – 1886 ).

Noah Porter, Jr. was the son of Noah Porter, one of the first ministers of First Church of Christ, Congregational 1652 in Farmington, Connecticut, and was the older brother of Sarah Porter, founder of Miss Porter's School, a college preparatory school for girls.