Sereno Edwards Dwight
Sereno Edwards Dwight (May 18, 1786 – November 30, 1850) was an American author, educator, and
Early years
Dwight was the fifth son of
Ministry
Licensed to preach in 1816, he served as the
Thereafter, he served as pastor of the
poisoning, which interfered with his work in Boston and at Hamilton College, and made his life after 1839 solitary and comparatively uninfluential.His publications include Life of David Brainerd (1822); Life and Works of Jonathan Edwards (ten volumes, 1830), of whom he was a great-grandson; The Hebrew Wife (1836), an argument against marriage with a deceased wife's sister; and Select Discourses (1851); to which was prefixed a biographical sketch by his brother William Dwight (1795–1865), who was also successively a lawyer and a Congregational preacher.
Personal life
In August 1811, Dwight married Susan Edwards Daggett (1788 - 1839), the daughter of David Daggett, of New Haven, Connecticut. Their only daughter did not survive infancy.[4]
Publications
- William Theodore Dwight, Select Discourses' (1851)
References
- ^ The Life of Jedidiah Morse, Part 4, by William Buell Sprague, p. 220
- ^ Order of Exercises at the Ordination of the Rev. Sereno E. Dwight, and Several Missionaries to the Heathen on the 3d of September, 1817, at Park Street Church, Boston.
- ^ The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 2 By William Henry Seward, George E. Baker, p. 16
- ^ Select Discourses of Sereno Edwards Dwight: With a Memoir of His Life, by William T. Dwight, p. xxviii
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dwight, Timothy". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 741–742.
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