[Joseph Emerson]. American lexicographer, born in Bedford, NH, on the 24th of August 1784; graduated at Yale in 1811. In 1830 he visited Europe, and in 1847 received the degree of LL.D. from Brown, which was duplicated by Dartmouth in 1856. Dr. Worcester delivered lectures, edited a variety of gazetteers, geographies, histories and almanacs, and finally made a life-work of his Dictionary of the English Language (1830). He died in Cambridge, MA, on the 27th of October 1865.
