Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784-1865) was an American lexicographer and chief competitor of "Webster's Dictionary" in the mid-nineteenth-century. Worcester was born August 24, 1784, in Bedford, New Hampshire, and worked on a farm in his youth, entering Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1805. In 1809, he entered Yale University and graduated in two years. He then taught school in Massachusetts for several years, during which time he produced several works on geography, … Wikipedia
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