Noah Webster, teacher, writer and language reformer. 1758 - 1843 Our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government
- Noah Webster, on American language
Born on 16th October 1758 in West Hartford, Connecticut, his family were typical of the early colonials - his father farmed and worked as a weaver, his mother raised the family of five children. He had a tremendous love of learning, so his parents sent him to Yale in 1774, when he was 16. After his graduation in 1778, he began teaching, but found fault with the schooling system and the textbooks, which were all imported from England.