244 Trumbull Gallery of Paintings in Yale College. 



No. 38. — Portrait of Alexander Hamilton, copied in 1832, 

 from an original, painted at Washington in 1792, now in posses- 

 sion of the family of the late Gov. Wolcott. 



No. 39. — Holy Family, — composed in London, 1802, — finish- • 

 ed in America, 1806. 



No. 40. — President Dwight. 



Timothy Dwight, D. D., LL, D., was born at Northampton, in 

 Massachusetts, on the 4th of May, A. D. 1752. His parents 

 were Timothy and Mary Dwight. The first ancestor of his fa- 

 ther's family, in this country, John Dwight, came from England, 

 and settled in Dedham, in Massachusetts, in 1637. His mother 

 was the third daughter of Jonathan Edwards, President of Prince- 

 ton College, New Jersey. Dr. Dwight entered Yale College in 

 1765, and graduated in 1769. with a high reputation for scholar- 

 ship. Two years afterwards, he was chosen a tutor of Yale Col- 

 lege, and for the six succeeding years discharged the duties of this 

 office with distinguished success. In March, 1777, he was mar- 

 ried to Miss Mary Woolsey, daughter of Benjamin Woolsey, Esq., 

 of Long Island. In September of the same year, he was chap- 

 lain to Gen. Parsons' brigade, which was a part of the division of 

 General Putnam, in the army of the United States, and served 

 one year. After this, he resided several years at Northampton, 

 and was twice a member of the legislature of Massachusetts. 

 In 1783, he was ordained as minister of the church and congre- 

 gation of the parish of Greenfield, in the town of Fairfield in 

 Connecticut, and for the succeeding twelve years continued their 

 pastor. While at Greenfield, he established an academy, which 

 enjoyed a high reputation. 



In May, 1795, on the death of the Rev. Dr. Stiles, he was invi- 

 ted to the presidency of Yale College. Much was expected from 

 Dr. Dwight in this situation, and public expectation was in no re- 

 spect disappointed. By his exertions as an instructor, and by a 

 judicious system of discipline, the reputation of the College was 

 greatly increased and extended. Dr. Dwight, through the whole 

 time of his presidency, discharged, also, the duties of a Professor 

 of divinity. In the midst of his usefulness, he was attacked by 

 a painful and incurable disorder, which terminated his life on the 

 11th of January, 1817, in the 65th year of his age. His death 



