WEBSTER, Richard, clergyman, born in Albany, New York, 14 July, 1811; died in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, 19 June, 1856. His father, Charles R. Webster (1763-1834), a bookseller of Albany, established and conducted the "Albany Gazette" (1784-1824), and published "Webster's Calendar" from 1784 till his death. The son was graduated at Union college in 1829 and at Princeton theological seminary in 1834, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister, 29 April, 1835. After laboring for a short time at South Easton, Pennsylvania, he organized a church at Mauch Chunk, 1 November, 1835, and was its pastor till his death. He also did much work in all parts of the coal region, and aided in founding about a dozen churches. Defective sight and hearing induced him to give much time to historical studies, and, besides frequent contributions to current religious literature under the signature of " K. H.," he issued a "Digest of the Acts of the General Assembly," and left a " History of the Presbyterian Church in America from its Origin till the Year 1760, with Biographical Sketches of its Early Ministers," which was published after his death by the Presbyterian historical society, with a memoir of the author by Reverend Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, D. D., and a historical introduction by Reverend William Blackwood, D. D. (Philadelphia, 1857).