Weld (Theodore D.) is born in Hampton, Connecticut.

Theodore Weld graduates from Hamilton College, joins an evangelist ministry, and becomes involved in the abolition movement, first in the Midwest and then in New Jersey. He marries Angelina Grimké in 1838 and moves to Boston in approximately 1864 to teach at the Lexington Women’s Seminary, living on Fairmount Avenue. Weld becomes involved in the women’s suffrage movement and serves on the Hyde Park school board and library board. He dies in Hyde Park on February 3, 1895.