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Timothy Dwight IV

Timothy Dwight (May 14, 1752 - January 11, 1817), grandson of theologian Jonathan Edwards, was a Congregationalist minister. He matriculated at Yale College at age 13, and received his Doctor of Divinity degree from Princeton University in 1787. He served as President of Yale College from 1795 to 1817, and helped found Andover Theological Seminary[?] in 1809.

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