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*[[Daniel Webster]] (1782-1852), prominent U.S. Senator and Secretary of State recognized as one of the greatest orators in history and also the father of the English language in America.  He attended [[Phillips-Exeter]] for only a few months before being pulled out to be tutored by the Rev. Samuel Wood before attending [[Dartmouth]].<ref>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/1801/</ref>
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*[[Daniel Webster]] (1782-1852), prominent U.S. Senator and Secretary of State recognized as one of the greatest orators in history and also the father of the English language in America as the author of the first American dictionary.  He attended [[Phillips-Exeter]] for only a few months before being pulled out to be tutored by the Rev. Samuel Wood before attending [[Dartmouth]].<ref>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/1801/</ref>
    
*[[The Wright Brothers|Orville and Wilbur Wright]], inventors of the airplane.  They did attend some school, but also learned at home from their father, who was a conservative minister, and their mother, who was the top mathematician in her college class.<ref>http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Just%20the%20Facts/family.htm</ref>  Neither Wright Brother earned a high school diploma, let alone college, and Orville Wright left high school after his junior year.<ref>http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Just%20the%20Facts/trivia.htm</ref>
 
*[[The Wright Brothers|Orville and Wilbur Wright]], inventors of the airplane.  They did attend some school, but also learned at home from their father, who was a conservative minister, and their mother, who was the top mathematician in her college class.<ref>http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Just%20the%20Facts/family.htm</ref>  Neither Wright Brother earned a high school diploma, let alone college, and Orville Wright left high school after his junior year.<ref>http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Just%20the%20Facts/trivia.htm</ref>
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