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156: 38: 236:(1828), Dr. Goodrich was entrusted by its author with power to superintend an abridgment of the work, which he did, conforming the orthography more nearly to the common standard. This edition, in the preparation of which he was assisted by Benjamin Silliman, Denison Olmsted, and others, was issued in 1847, and the “Universal” edition of the same work appeared in 1856. In 1859 the supplement was issued, to which comprehensive additions were made. At the time of his death Dr. Goodrich was engaged on a radical revision of the dictionary, but he died before the work received its final form, and it was published under the supervision of 186:, but declined the office. He was professor of rhetoric and oratory in Yale from 1817 until 1839 when he was transferred to the chair of pastoral theology in that institution, which chair he held till his death. 240:(1864). He was also engaged in preparing a new edition of the Bible, with English text, as one of the American Bible society's “committee on versions.” Dr. Goodrich was also the author of 189:
Dr. Goodrich exerted a wide influence, and co-operated with many learned societies. As a teacher he inspired his pupils to the highest effort. He was a liberal benefactor of the
276: 205:, with which he was connected nearly ten years, being its sole editor after 1830. While a tutor at Yale, Dr. Goodrich published a 136: 334: 329: 339: 324: 244:(1852). A commemorative discourse by President Theodore D. Woolsey has been published as a pamphlet (New Haven, 1860). 319: 304: 314: 270: 309: 155: 251:
Avenue along the division between northern New Haven and southern Hamden in Connecticut, is named for him.
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in 1835. Dr. Goodrich made numerous contributions to periodical literature, and in 1829 established the
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in 1810, served as tutor there in 1812–1814, and afterward studied theology. He settled in
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there, but feeble health obliged him to leave in 1817. In 1820 he was chosen president of
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and Anne Willard (Allen) Goodrich. His father was a lawyer and member of the
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Goodrich Street, a principal thoroughfare linking Prospect Street and
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Chauncey Goodrich

New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
Grove Street Cemetery
lexicographer
lexicographer
Noah Webster
Dictionary
Elizur
United States House of Representatives
Chauncey Goodrich
Connecticut

Chauncey Ives
Yale University Art Gallery
Yale
Middletown, Connecticut
Congregational church
Williams College
Yale Divinity School
D.D.
Brown University
Greek
C.F. Hachenberg
Timothy Dwight
New England
Noah Webster
Noah Porter
Dixwell

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