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Dwight, Theodore, 1764-1846 Journalist; born in Northampton, Mass., Dec. 15, 1764; was a grandson of the eminent theologian Jonathan Edwards; became eminent as a lawyer and political writer; was for many years in the Senate of Connecticut; and in 1806-7 was in Congress, where he became a prominent advocate for the suppression of the slave-trade. During the War of 1812-15 he edited the Mirror, at Hartford, the leading Federal newspaper in Connecticut; and was secretary of the Hartford convention (q. v.)in 1814, the proceedings of which he published in 1833. He published the Albany Daily Advertiser in 1815, and was the founder, in 1817, of the New York Daily Advertiser, with which he was connected until the great fire in 1835, when he retired, with his family, to Hartford. Mr. Dwight was one of the founders of the American Bible Society. He was one of the writers of the poetical essays of the Echo in the Hartford Mercury. He was also the author of a Dictionary of roots and