Background
Dwight, John Sullivan was born on May 13, 1813 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Doctor John and Mary (Corey) Dwight.
Dwight, John Sullivan was born on May 13, 1813 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Doctor John and Mary (Corey) Dwight.
Graduated from Harvard, 1832, Harvard Divinity School, 1836.
A founder General Association of Mems. of Pierian Sodality (Harvard musical association), 1837. Ordained to ministry Unitarian Church, pastor church, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1840. Member Transcendentalist Club.
Joined Brook Farm Settlement, 1841, taught music, Latin there. Editor mus. journal Harbinger. Choir director W. H. Channing’s Religious Union Associationists, 1847-1851.
Lecturer, writer on music. Publisher-editor Dwight’s Journal of Music: A Paper of Literature and Art, 1851-1858, editor, 1858-1881. Trustee Perkins Institute for the Blind.
Member Saturday Club. Vice president Harvard Musical Association, 1855-1873, president, 1873-1893. Author: (translator) Select Minor Poems Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller, 1839.
The History of Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, Massachusetts, 1883.
Member Transcendentalist. Member Saturday.
Married Mary Bullard, February 12, 1851.