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He began his advanced education when he went to [[Yale University]] at age 13 and graduated as valedictorian at 17.  He was serving as the president of [[Princeton University]] when he received the [[smallpox]] [[inoculation]], having been assured it would be safe. However, it was very dangerous and killed him.

He began his advanced education when he went to [[Yale University]] at age 13 and graduated as valedictorian at 17.  He was serving as the president of [[Princeton University]] when he received the [[smallpox]] [[inoculation]], having been assured it would be safe. However, it was very dangerous and killed him.

His inspiring preaching helped start the Great Awakening, which became a huge religious revival that helped unite the [[colony|colonies]] prior to the [[American Revolution]]. Like most eighteenth century Congregationalists (who were derived from the seventeenth century "Puritan" church), Edwards was a [[Calvinist]]; however, traditional Calvinist maintain that only the elect, who had been chosen before the creation of the world, could achieve salvation.<ref>http://www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/four.html</ref> By the time of the Great Awakening, most Calvinist clergy had altered their views that one could alter their eternal fate (which was the point of most of Edward's sermons.)

His inspiring preaching helped start the Great Awakening, which became a huge religious revival that helped unite the [[colony|colonies]] prior to the [[American Revolution]]. Like most eighteenth century Congregationalists (who were derived from the seventeenth century "Puritan" church), Edwards was a [[Calvinist]]; however, traditional Calvinist maintain that only the elect, who had been chosen before the creation of the world, could achieve salvation.<ref>http://www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/four.html</ref> By the time of the Great Awakening, most Calvinist clergy had altered their views that one could alter their eternal fate (which was the point of most of Edward's sermons).

[[Aaron Burr]] was a grandson of Jonathan Edwards.

[[Aaron Burr]] was a grandson of Jonathan Edwards.  Burr by no means followed his grandfather: in addition to his murder of [[Alexander Hamilton]] during a duel, he openly had an affair with a woman married to a British soldier (though after her husband's death in battle, he married her).

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