Description Cyndy Bittinger, president of the Hanover Historical Society, speaks about the women behind Hanover, NH's Webster Cottage in this talk sponsored by the Hanover Historical Society and Howe Library. The plaque outside Webster Cottage states that Daniel Webster, the famous American statesman, and Henry Fowle Durant (born Henry Wells Smith), founder of Wellesley College, once lived there. Yet women also lived in the cottage and they were the ones who saved it for future generations. Who were these women? What did they do?