Timothy Dwight IV
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Timothy Dwight was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He was the eighth president of Yale College.
Portrait by John Trumbull, 1817
Engraving of Dwight and his signature, c. 1820 to 1840
Lyman Beecher
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Lyman Beecher was an American Presbyterian minister and abolitionist. He fathered 13 children, over half of whom became writers or ministers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charl
Timothy Dwight IV
…made the college the largest institution of higher education in North America. Dwight had a genius for recognizing able protégé such as James Murdock, Lyman Beecher, Nathaniel W. Taylor, and Leonard Bacon, all of whom would become major religious leaders and theological innovators in the antebellum decades. During…
Painting c. 1842
Lyman Beecher
Photograph by Mathew Brady
Beecher with his children Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, taken sometime after 1858.