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."