Horace Webster (

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, September 21, 1794 -

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, July 12, 1871) was an American educator who graduated from the

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in 1818. Webster remained at West Point as a mathematics professor until 1825, leaving with the rank of

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. He then moved to

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, where he taught as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy until he left in 1848 to head the Free Academy of New York, where he continued until retirement in 1869. The school was renamed City College in 1866. Horace Webster served as its first president.

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