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Dwight, Francis

lawyer, educator, journalist, was born March 14, 1808, in Springfield, Mass. In 1840 he established in Albany The District School Journal, under state patronage, which he conducted until his death. He was active in devising and establishing the present code of public instruction in the state of New York. He died Dec. 15, 1845, in Albany, N. Y.

DWIGHT, HARRISON GRAY OTIS, missionary, author, was born in 1803 in Massachusetts. He was a congregational missionary to Armenia; and the author of Researches of Smith and Dwight in Armenia; Christianity Revived in the East; and Catalogue of Armenian Literature in the Middle Ages. He was killed in a railroad accident Jan. 25, 1862.

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