
Daniel Webster: A Legacy of Inspiration
The following is the first in a seven-part series. We hope you’ll enjoy. Not many statesmen can deliver a single speech so powerful that it inspires an audience to name an entire town after them. This, however, was exactly the feat accomplished by U.S. Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts on July 25, 1837, on the steps of the Rochester courthouse just as the citizens of North Penfield were considering the