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Webster's wife, Grace, died in January 1828 due to a cancerous tumor, [191] and Webster suffered another loss when his brother, Ezekiel, died in April 1829. [192] In December 1829, Webster married Caroline LeRoy , the 32-year-old daughter of a New York merchant.
9 Νοε 2009 · Already suffering from cirrhosis of the liver, Webster’s health worsened after a carriage accident in May 1852 left him with a head injury and internal wounds. He died on October 24, 1852, at...
4 Ιουν 2016 · Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of...
He delivered a rousing speech on July 4,1812. A unionist to his core, he condemned the War of 1812 warning that its negative impact on trade could result in New England leaving the still fragile union of the United States.
Webster’s cases before the Supreme Court are cited daily as the foundations of American contract and the supremacy of the Constitution over the states. The Webster-Ashburton treaty and his work as Secretary of State averted a third war with Great Britain, and ushered in a new era of peace.
17 Ιουν 2019 · Death . Webster died on October 24, 1852, just before the general election (which Winfield Scott would lose to Franklin Pierce). He was buried in Winslow Cemetery in Marshfield, Massachusetts.
Webster's efforts on behalf of New England Federalism, shipping interests, and war opposition resulted in his election to the House of Representatives in 1812, where he served two terms ending March 1817.
