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Timothy Dwight IV
American historian (–)
Timothy Dwight (May 14, &#;&#; January 11, ) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author.
He was the eighth president of Yale College (–).
Early life
Timothy Dwight was born May 14, , in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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The Dwight family had a long association with Yale College, as it was then known. Dwight's paternal grandfather, Colonel Timothy Dwight, was born on 19 October and died on April 30, His father, a merchant and farmer known as Major Timothy Dwight, was born May 27, , graduated from Yale in , served in the American Revolutionary War, and died June 10, [2] His mother Mary Edwards (–) was the third daughter of theologian Jonathan Edwards.
Dwight was said to have learned the alphabet at a single lesson and to have been able to read the Bible before he was four years old.[2] He had 12 younger siblings, including journalist Theodore Dwight (–).
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