President Timothy Dwight, D.D., LL.D., b. 1828, g.  Yale 1849, g.  Yale Theological School, studied at Bonn and Berlin in Germany; was professor at Yale and president from 1886 to 1897.  He has been an eminent American scholar for half a century.  If there were but two or three such men in a family it would make it memorable.  Yale gave him the degree of D.D., and both Harvard and Princeton that of LL.D.  He was editor of “The New Englander.”  It is a singular fact that the three great advances which Yale has made have been in the times of the two Dwights and of Woolsey, all descendants of Jonathan Edwards.  By the end of his third year the number of students had risen to 1365 and the sixth year to 1784.  The gifts to Yale in each of the fifteen years of his administration were fabulous as compared with any past experiences, often above $350,000.

President Sereno Edwards Dwight, D.D., g.  Yale 1803, practiced law in New Haven; author of important books which were republished in England; became a clergyman at the age of twenty-nine; pastor of Park St. Church, Boston; was chaplain of the U.S.  Senate; established successful boarding school in New Haven.  Among his students were the two boys who afterwards made the famous Andrews & Stoddard’s Latin Grammar.  His literary work was extensive and valuable.  Standing by himself he would shed lustre upon the names he bore, Edwards and Dwight.  He was a tutor in Yale and was third president of Hamilton College.

William Theodore Dwight, D.D., b. 1795, g.  Yale 1813, tutor at Yale, practiced law in Philadelphia; became a clergyman; pastor in Portland; overseer of Bowdoin College.  He was offered three professorships, which he declined.  He was one of the religious leaders of America for many years.

Hon. Theodore Dwight, b. 1764, lawyer.  Editor “The Connecticut Mirror” and “The Hartford Courant;” member of Congress, where he won honors by successfully combating the famous John Randolph; secretary of the famous Hartford Convention; established and edited 1815-17 the “Albany Daily Advertiser;” established and edited the “New York Daily Advertiser” 1817-36; wrote “Life of Thomas Jefferson,” and many other works of importance.  There were few men in his day who occupied a position of such influence.

Theodore Dwight, 2d, b. 1796, g.  Yale 1814, eminent scholar, imprisoned in Paris for distributing the New Testament gratis in the streets; spoke seven languages; was the warmest American friend of Garibaldi and was authorized by him to edit his works in this country; was director N.Y.  Asylum for the Blind, and of the N.Y.  Public School Assn.; was instrumental in having music introduced into the schools of N.Y.  City; was prominent in religious and philanthropic as well as educational work.  In the Kansas crisis he induced 3,000 settlers to go to Kansas, and indirectly caused nearly 10,000 to go at that critical time.  He edited at various times “The N.Y.  Daily Advertiser,” “The Youths Penny Paper,” “The American Magazine,” “The Family Visitor,” “The N.Y.  Presbyterian,” “The Christian Alliance,” and wrote several successful text-books and many literary and historical works.  He was a leader in the noblest sense of the term.