Joseph Emerson Worcester: A Distinguished and Gracious New England Lexicographer by Matthew Higgins (Concord, NH: Duncross Books, 2007)Born in Bedford, New Hampshire on August 24, 1784 Joseph Emerson Worcester had, by 1860, "produced the finest product of American lexicography up to that time -- a dictionary that established the particular pattern that would distinguish the American Dictionary of the English language." (from the back cover)
This brief biography was written by Matthew Higgins, former NH State Librarian.
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