Timothy Dwight

Died in 1817

Timothy Dwight was born in 1752 in Northampton, Massachusetts; his mother was the daughter of the theologian Jonathan Edwards. He entered Yale at thirteen, graduated in 1769, taught there as a tutor, then served in 1777 as chaplain of a Connecticut brigade. On his father's death, he returned home to help his large family of siblings, farmed the land, preached and ran a school open to girls as well as boys. Pastor of Greenfield Hill, in Connecticut, from 1783 to 1795, he founded a well-regarded academy there. Elected president of Yale in 1795, he remained so until his death, in New Haven, in 1817.

In the catalogue 1

PoetryThe Conquest of CanaanTimothy Dwight · 1785LiteraturePublic domain