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Yale in ISl.l. He is the autlior of The (inid (Jiiislioii Aniiirered ; A ^hurt but Cumprehi iisivi Sy.s- tt-m of the ireography «/ the World (ITtt.")) ; ami ^Hctrhes of the Lires of the Siijiins (1830). He died in Oswei;.), N.Y.. June 11. ISll.

DWIQHT, Sereno Edwards, ethuator, was born in Greenfield Hill, Conn., May 18, 178G; the eldest stm of President Timothy and Mary (Vvool- sey) Dwight ; grandson of Major Timothy and jNIary (Edwards) Dwight, and of Benjamin A\\H)lsey; great-grandson of Col. Timothy and E.xperience (King) Dwight; great- grandson of Nathaniel and Meiiitable (Partridge) Dwight; great' gramlson of Capt. Timothy and Anna (Flint) Dwight; and great-grandson of John and Hannah Dwight who immigrated to Dedham, Mass.. from England in 1631-35. Sereno Edwards Dwight was graduated at Yale in 1803, receiving his ma.ster's degree in 1806; taught in Litchfield and was amanuensis to his father, 1803-06; was tutor in Yale, 1806-10. and practised law in New Haven, Conn., 1810-16. He was licensed to preach in 1816; served the United States senate as chaplain, 1816-17; was pastor of the Park street church, Boston, Mass., 1807-26; was en- gaged in literary work at New Haven, 1826-28; with Ids brother, Henry Edwin, conducted the New Haven gymnasium, a boarding school for boys. 1828-;31 ; was president of Hamilton college, l83:i-35; and agent of the Pennsjlvania coloniza- tion society in 1838. He was married to Su.san Edwards, daughter of David Daggett of New Haven, who aided her husband in his literary work. He received the degree of D.D. from Yale in 18;33. He published: Life of David Bminerd (1822); Life and Works of Jonathan Edirards (10 vols.. 1830); Tlie Hebrew Wife (1836); and a memoir of his father, and one of his brother, the Kev. William Theodore Dwight. He died in Phil- adelphia. Pa., Nov. 30, 1850.

DWIGHT, Theodore, journalist, was born in Nortliampt<m. Mass., Dec. 15, 1764; son of Maj. Timothy and Mary (Edwards; Dwight. He was educated as a lawyer under instruction from his cousin. Judge Pierrepont Edwards of New Haven, and practised first in Haddam and after 171»1 in Hartford, Conn. He was married in 1792 to Abigail, daughter of Richard Alsop. He was for a short ])eriod a law partner with his cou.sin Aaron Burr in New York city, but ix)litical opinion separated the two and he returned to Hartfonl, where he edited the Conrnnt and the Con- nerfiriit Mirror. He made the Mirror the organ of the Federalists in Connecticut and became prom- inent in the councils of that fiarty. He was a representative in the 9th congress, 1806-07. to fill a vacancy cau.sed by the resignation of Rep- resentative John Cotton Smith. In congre.ss he met John Randolph in debate and the two wits

had a notable argument. As a member of "The Hartford wits " he was credited with being chief contributor to the Political Greenhouse and the Echo. He was a mem- ber of the governor's council, 1809-15; sec- retary of the Hartford convention of 1814; established and con- ducted the iJaUy Ad- vertiser, Albany, N.Y., 1815-16, and the Daily Advocate, New York city, 1816-36. He re- \ ceived the honorary ' degree of A.M. from ' Yale in 1798. He published: History of

the Hartford Conven- ''^/^^ ^^~IP) / tion (1883) ; and Char- o/u^crzJg-U-oy.U'^z^At" acter of Thomas Jeffer- f

son, as Exhibited in his oicnWritinys (1839). See Life and Writinys of Theodore Diciyht published by the N.Y. historical society (1846); and Dr. Francis's sketch of the character of Theodore Dwight also published by the historical society. He died in New York city, June 12, 1846.

DWIQHT, Theodore, reformer, was born in Hartford, Conn., March 3, 1796; son of Theodore and Abigail (Alsop) Dwight, and grandson of Major Timothy and Mary (Edwards) Dwight. He was graduated at Yale in 1814, receiving his master's degree in 1817. He studied theology at Yale, 1814-17, spent some time in Europe in order to recover from ill health, and on liis return to America abandoned the law and devoted himself to literature and philanthropic work. He re- moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1833, and continued Sundaj-- school work, begun in 1826. He joined >:, George Walter in >. , 1854 in inducing iin, ,

migration to Kansiis in order to secure for the state a free-soil constitution, and he ,,/ is credited with hav- ^f ing secured at least 9000 settlers pledged to work for an anti- slavery constitution. He was on the edi- torial staff of the Daily Advertiser, the American Matjazine, the Family Visitor, the Protestant Vin- dirator, the Christian Alliance, and the Israelite Indeed and was chief editor and publisher of the Xeic York Presbyterian. He translated school-

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