Entered Yale College at age eighteen; graduated 1797. Studied under Timothy Dwight, president of Yale and grandson of Jonathan Edwards, who became his theological mentor.
Source: Harriet Beecher Stowe House, "Lyman Beecher and the Second Great Awakening"
Quote: "At age eighteen he entered Yale College and was graduated in 1797. Under the tutelage of Timothy Dwight of the Yale Divinity School, Lyman was ordained as minister in 1799."
August 23, 1797 — Lucy Elizabeth Porter is born in Portland, Cumberland, Massachusetts (present-day Maine), to Dr. Aaron Porter (1752–1837) and Paulina King Porter (1759–1832).
Source: Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield Ledger, Student Record for Lucy Elizabeth Porter.
Quote: "Lucy Porter Brace, daughter of Aaron and Paulina King Porter, was born August 23, 1797."