Molly Dobbs became pregnant, with the father being either Tyrone Dobbs or Kevin Webster ; Molly reconciled with Tyrone and nearly lost her life after a crash in a car which had not been properly repaired by Kevin.

In the 20th century, Theosophy was further developed by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, while people like Alice Bailey, Rudolf Steiner and many others, became the source for a whole range of post-theosophical movements such as The Summit Lighthouse.

Webster in early life was something of a freethinker, but in 1808 he became a convert to Calvinistic orthodoxy, and thereafter became a devout Congregationalist who preached the need to Christianize the nation.

It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings were “ once as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.

Foster then initiated the hiring of Rodham at Rose Law Firm, where she became its first ever female associate ( and later partner ); Foster and fellow partner Webster Hubbell were instrumental in overcoming the reluctance of other partners to hire a woman.

Webster became increasingly interested in politics ; raised by an ardently Federalist father and taught by a predominantly Federalist-leaning faculty at Dartmouth, Webster, like many New Englanders, supported Federalism.

While travelling in Europe he prepared a thesis entitled John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, which won him a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted in plays including the Cambridge Greek Play.

In 1945, Camp Carpenter became the official Scout camp for Daniel Webster Council.

The town became the county seat in 1913 after the county voted to move from Webster to Sylva.

Three months later, three of the six and eighteen others became the guild's first officers and board of directors: Ralph Morgan ( its first president ), Alden Gay, Kenneth Thomson, Alan Mowbray ( who personally funded the organization when it was first founded ), Leon Ames, Tyler Brooke, Clay Clement, James Gleason, Lucile Webster Gleason, Boris Karloff ( reportedly influenced by long hours suffered during the filming of Frankenstein ), Claude King, Noel Madison, Reginald Mason, Bradley Page, Willard Robertson, Ivan Simpson, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace and Lyle Talbot.

The youngest son of Noah Webster Beery and Frances Margaret ( Fitzgerald ) Beery, he and his brothers William C. Beery and Noah Beery became Hollywood actors.

Webster became a junction on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1854.

As the primary commercial hub of the area, the village of Webster also became the focus of the community ’ s social life.

The Town of Webster became one of the major suburban residential areas in Monroe County with its population more than doubling between 1950 and 1960.

Rufus D. Hayes of Baton Rouge became the first insurance commissioner, and Drayton Boucher of Webster Parish was named over voting machines until he was replaced by Douglas Fowler of Red River Parish, when Boucher decided not to run for the office in the 1959-1960 election cycle.

Clay's plan became the leading tenet of the National Republican Party of John Quincy Adams and the Whig Party of himself and Daniel Webster.

Such was his importance to Ellington's band at the time, together with the tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, that it became known as the Blanton – Webster band.

Benjamin Nottingham Webster became the theatre's manager from 1837 to 1853.

During the Reconstruction Era, in 1870, former slave James Webster Smith, through private sponsorship, became the first African American cadet to enroll at West Point.

After getting pregnant by a man named Jimmy, Nina Webster ran away from her home and spent nights on a park bench in Genoa City, before being found by Christine Blair, with whom she soon became friends.

Caucasian Peter Smith was changed to African-American Webster (" Webb ") Smith, Ishiguro became Ishihara, and Theresa became Jingo.

Webster was considered the Northern member of a trio known as the " Great Triumvirate ", with his colleagues Henry Clay from the West ( Kentucky ) and John C. Calhoun from the South ( South Carolina ).

" Historian Charles Wiltse agrees, noting, " Though he is known today primarily for his sectionalism, Calhoun was the last of the great political leaders of his time to take a sectional position — later than Daniel Webster, later than Henry Clay, later than Adams himself.

* Noah Webster ( 1758-1843 ), an American known for creating Webster's Dictionary

Old Greensboro was known for the old Webster County Seat and is still known for the Old Greensboro Cemetery.

The High School and Elementary School are connected by and share a cafeteria known as the Webster County Annex.

Originally settled in the 1820s and 1830s, this small town has a rich history, centered around the picturesque area known locally as " Webster Corners ".

Webster Groves is approximately west of the St. Louis city limits, and southwest of downtown St. Louis, in an area known to fur trappers and Missouri, Osage and Dakota Indians, until 1802, as the " Dry Ridge.

The land grant covered the major area now known as Webster Groves.

The town has also been known as ; Elk Lick, Fork Lick, Addison ( officially 1892 – present ), and Webster Springs ( unofficially 1861 – present ).

In 1934, the New International Dictionary was revised and expanded for a second edition, which is popularly known as " Webster ’ s Second " or W2, although it was not published under that title.

An Academy Award-winner ( for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941 ), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo.

In 2005, New Hampshire launched the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program, an alternative bar certification program, at the state's only law school, the University of New Hampshire School of Law ( then known as Franklin Pierce Law Center ).

John Webster ( c. 1580 – c. 1634 ) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.

Despite his ability to write comedy, Webster is best known for his two brooding English tragedies based on Italian sources.

* Joe Roberts ( born 1984 ), English actor known for portraying John Webster in Shakespeare in Love

Herman Webster Mudgett ( May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896 ), better known under the alias of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term.

Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body ( 1928 ), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, " The Devil and Daniel Webster " ( 1936 ) and " By the Waters of Babylon " ( 1937 ).

The Remington ’ s substantial Gothic revival house was situated at 301 Webster Avenue, on a prestigious promontory known as “ Lathers Hill ”.

He was a grandnephew of Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, known as " the Mrs. Astor ".

Mary Elizabeth Jenkins was born to Archibald and Elizabeth Anne ( Webster ) Jenkins on a tobacco farm near the southern Maryland town of Waterloo ( now known as Clinton ).