Theodore Dwight (other)
Theodore Dwight may refer to: * Theodore Dwight (elder) (1764–1846), Federalist member of U.S. Congress * Theodore Dwight (author) (1796–1866), author, son of Theodore Dwight * Theodore William Dwight (1822–1892), U.S. jurist * Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight (1846–1917), American librarian, archivist, and diplomat See also * Theodore Dwight Weld (1803–1895), abolitionist * Theodore Dwight Woolsey Theodore Dwight Woolsey (31 October 1801 – 1 July 1889) was an American academic, author and President of Yale College from 1846 through 1871. Biography Theodore Dwight Woolsey was born 31 October 1801 in New York City. His mother was Eliza ...

Theodore Dwight (elder)
Theodore Dwight (December 15, 1764 – June 12, 1846) was an American lawyer and journalist. He was a distinguished lawyer, a leader of the Federalist Party, a member of Congress from 1806 to 1807, and secretary of the Hartford Convention in 1814 and 1815. His talent as a writer made him a brilliant editor at the Hartford ''Mirror'', the Albany ''Daily Advertiser'', and the New York City ''Daily Advertiser'', which he founded in 1817. Among his publications are ''Life and Character of Thomas Jefferson'' (1839) and ''History of the Hartford Convention'' (1833). Biography Theodore Dwight was born in Northampton, Massachusetts on December 15, 1764, a son of Timothy Dwight (1726–1777) and Mary (Edwards) Dwight. He was the brother of Timothy Dwight, the grandson of Jonathan Edwards, and a cousin of Aaron Burr. Dwight was educated at home by his mother and attended a Northampton district school. He studied law under his uncle Pierpont Edwards, attained was admitted to the bar ...
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Theodore Dwight (author)
Theodore Dwight (1796–1866), was an American author. Life Theodore Dwight was born on March 3, 1796, in Hartford, Connecticut. His father was Theodore Dwight (1764–1846) of the New England Dwight family. His mother was Abigail Alsop (1765–1846), the sister of Richard Alsop (1761–1815). He graduated from Yale College in 1814. He compiled the travelogues of his uncle, Timothy Dwight IV, previously president of Yale, which he brought to publication in 1821. In 1825, he published the second tourist guidebook in the United States, ''The Northern Traveller'', which he updated with regular editions until 1841.Richard Gassan, "The First American Tourist Guidebooks: Authorship and Print Culture of the 1820s", ''Book History'' 8 (2005), pp. 51-74 A commentator on American society, he wrote a number of works on child rearing and school reform and, in the 1850s and 1860s, passionately advocated for the cause of Garibaldi and the unification of Italy. He married Eleanor Boyd on A ...
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Theodore William Dwight
Theodore William Dwight (1822–1892) was an American jurist and educator, cousin of Theodore Dwight Woolsey and of Timothy Dwight V. He founded Columbia Law School in 1858 and New York Law School in 1891. Biography Theodore William Dwight was born in Catskill (town), New York, Catskill, New York on July 18, 1822. His father was Benjamin Woolsey Dwight (1780–1850), a physician and merchant, and his grandfather was Timothy Dwight IV (1752–1817), a prominent theologian, educator, author, and president of Yale University from 1795-1817. Theodore Dwight graduated from Hamilton College (New York), Hamilton College in 1840. He also later studied physics under Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Samuel F.B. Morse and John William Draper. Dwight taught the classics, classics at Utica Academy in 1840–1841. He studied law at Yale University, Yale and was admitted to the bar in 1845. Between 1842-1858, he taught at Hamilton, first as tutor and later as professor of law, history, civil polity ...
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Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight
Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight (June 11, 1846 – February 3, 1917) was an American librarian, archivist, and diplomat who was a member of Boston's elite homosexual subculture in the late 19th century. His place in American literary history was secured when he served for almost a decade as Henry Adams's literary assistant and family archivist. Early life Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight was born in Auburn, New York, the son of Almon Dwight (1814–1902) and Cyria Charge White (1817–1897). His father professed the Millerite Doctrine, the belief that the second coming of Christ would occur around 1843 or 1844 and, acting on that belief, lived in Jerusalem for four years before Theodore's birth, between 1837 and 1841, where he ran an industrial school. From 1865 until 1869, Theodore Dwight attended Rochester Collegiate Institute and paid his way through school by working in a wholesale saddlery and hardware store. Career The major portion of Dwight's career was as a librarian a ...
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Theodore Dwight Weld
Theodore Dwight Weld (November 23, 1803 – February 3, 1895) was one of the architects of the American abolitionist movement during its formative years from 1830 to 1844, playing a role as writer, editor, speaker, and organizer. He is best known for his co-authorship of the authoritative compendium '' American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses'', published in 1839. Harriet Beecher Stowe partly based '' Uncle Tom’s Cabin'' on Weld's text; the latter is regarded as second only to the former in its influence on the antislavery movement. Weld remained dedicated to the abolitionist movement until slavery was ended by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865.Columbia 2003 Encyclopedia Article
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