Chauncey A. Goodrich (1790–1860)

[Chauncey Allen].  American lexicographer, born in New Haven, CT, on the 23rd of October 1790; died there on the 25th of February 1860. He was graduated at Yale in 1810; was a tutor there from 1812 to 1814; pastor of the Middletown (CT) Congregational Church in 1816–17; professor of rhetoric and oratory in Yale from 1817 to 1839; and professor of pastoral theology until his death. He contributed extensively to various periodicals, and in 1829 established the Christian Quarterly Spectator, being its sole editor from 1836 to 1839. Besides some educational works, he edited Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary and Select British Eloquence.