Life

Theodore Dwight was born March 3, 1796 in Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...

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His father was Theodore Dwight

Theodore Dwight (elder)

Theodore Dwight was an American lawyer and journalist.He was the brother of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale, and the grandson of Jonathan Edwards...

 (1764–1846) of the New England Dwight family

New England Dwight family

The New England Dwight family had many members who were military leaders, educators, jurists, authors, businessmen and clergymen.Around 1634 John Dwight came with his wife Hannah, daughter Hannah, and sons Timothy Dwight and John Dwight, from Dedham, Essex, England to North America where the town...

. His mother was Abigail Alsop (1765–1846), the sister of Richard Alsop

Richard Alsop

Richard Alsop was an American merchant and author.Richard Alsop was born January 23, 1761. His father was also named Richard Alsop...

 (1761–1815).
He graduated from Yale College

Yale College

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 in 1814.
He compiling the travelogues of his uncle, Timothy Dwight IV

Timothy Dwight IV

Timothy Dwight was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author...

, 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 would update with regular editions until 1841. A commentator on American society, he wrote a number of works on child rearing, school reform, and in the 1850s and 1860s passionately advocated for the cause of Garibaldi and the unification of Italy

Italy

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He married Eleanor Boyd on April 24, 1827. Their children were:

1. Maria Bayard Dwight was born February 17, 1828 and died February 11, 1852.
2. Ellen Boyd Dwight was born Septembet 16, 1830, and married Captain Charles C. H. Kennedy, who served in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War
   American Civil War
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3. Theodore Dwight III was born March 4, 1833 but died December 18, 1852.
4. Mary Alsop Dwight was born March 17, 1836.
5. Anna Maria Dwight was born November 18, 1837, and ran a girls' school with sister Mary.
6. Augusta Moore Dwight was born November 18, 1840, married Sherwood Bissel Ferris.
7. Rebecca Jaffray Dwight was born March 1, 1842, married Fenton Rockwell, and had one child Benjamin Fenton Rockwell on December 17, 1868.

He died on October 16, 1866 in Brooklyn, New York from injuries in a train accident while traveling to Newark, New Jersey

Newark, New Jersey

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After accompanying his daughter and two grandchildren, he had jumped off the train as it left the station.

Publications

• Tour in Italy (1821)
• The Northern Traveler (1825; sixth edition, 1841)
• First Lessons in Modern Greek (1833)
• The Roman Republic of 1849 (1851)
• History of Connecticut (1841)
• The Kansas War: or, the Exploits of Chivalry in the Nineteenth Century (1859)