WEBSTER

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WEBSTER , a township of Worcester county,

Massachusetts

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

, U.S.A., on the French river, about 16 m. S.S.W. of Worcester. Pop. (1890) 7031; (1900) 8804, of whom 3562 were foreign-born; (1910 census), 11,509. Land area (1906), 12.19 sq. m. Webster is served by the New

York

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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
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, New Haven & Hartford, and the Boston & Albany railways, and by interurban electric lines. In the township is Lake Chaubunagungamaug, a beautiful sheet of water about 2 sq. m. in area. The manufacture of textiles and of boots and shoes is the principal industry; the total value of the factory product in 1905 was $5,867,769. Webster was founded by Samuel Slater (17681835), who in 1812 built

cotton

-mills and in 18151816 began the manufacture of woollen cloth. The township, named in honour of Daniel Webster, was erected in 1832 from common lands and from parts of Dudley and

Oxford

townships, which before the

cotton

-mills were built here were almost uninhabited.
See Holmes Ammidown, Historical Collections (New

York

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- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, 1874), vol. i. pp. 461-524.

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