American lexicographer, born in Cayuga County, NY, on the 23rd of September 1811. He was educated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Yale University, and graduated from a medical school in Philadelphia; traveled in India and Egypt for about three years, studying Oriental languages; on his return became professor of Latin and Greek at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. His most important works are a Pronouncing Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary of the World, on which he was co-editor with Thomas Baldwin (1845); Travels in Egypt and Palestine (1853); Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology (1870, 1871); and a Comprehensive Medical Dictionary (1864). He also contributed the geographical and biographical pronouncing vocabularies to Webster’s Dictionary. He died in Philadelphia on the 24th of December 1891.
