Webster, Daniel

N. H., 1782-1852. A distinguished statesman who was a graduate of Dart mouth College in 1801. He represented New Hampshire in Congre , 1813-17, and, removing to Ma achusetts in 1816, was a representative from that State, 1823-27. He was a member of the Senate, 1827-41 and 1845-50, and secretary of state, 1841-1843 and 1850-52. He died at Marsh field, Ma achusetts, October 24, 1852. He was a master of English style, the best of his orations on especial occasions being those delivered at the second Pilgrim centennial in 1820, on the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument in 1825, and the eulogy of Adams and Jefferson in 1826. See Parton’s Famous Americans; Private Life of, by C. Lanman, supra; Whipple’s Great Speeches of Webster, 1879; Atlantic Monthly, February, 1882; Lives by Curtis, Lyman, Smucker, Everett, Fletcher Webster, Tefft, Lodge; Apple tons’ American Biography; Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia; All i bone’s Dictionary; Reminiscences of, by Harvey; Biographical Encyclopædia of Ma achusetts. Co. Lit.