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Dwight, Joseph – Dwinell, Justin

Dwight, Joseph

soldier, lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Oct. 16, 1703, in Dedham, Mass. He was a distinguished jurist of Worcester and Berkshire counties, Mass., during 1733-61. He served at the head of a brigade of militia at Lake Champlain in the second French war.

For eleven years he was a representative in the state legislature, and was speaker of the house in 1749. He died June 9, 1765, in Great Barrington, Mass.

Dwight, Mary Ann

educator, author, was born in 1806 in Massachusetts. She was a teacher of drawing and painting in New York city; and the author of Grecian and Roman Mythology; Introduction to the Study of Art; and Art as a Branch of Education. She died in December, 1858, in Morrisania, N. Y.

Dwight, Nathaniel

physician, clergyman, author, was born in 1770 in Massachusetts. He was a physician and clergyman of Rhode Island and Connecticut, who published the first school geography in America, and was author also of The Great Question Answered; and A Compendious History of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. He died in 1831.

Dwight, Sereno Edwards

educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1786 in Connecticut. He was a congregational clergyman and educator; and the author of Life of David Brainerd; The Hebrew Wife; and Select Discourses. He edited the Works of Jonathan Edwards.

He died Nov. 30, 1850, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Dwight, Susan Edwards

author, was born in 1788. She aided her husband in preparing the works of Jonathan Edwards; and published an Abridgment of the Memoirs of Mrs. Susan Huntington.

She died in 1851 in Boston, Mass.

Dwight, Theodore

author, was born March 3, 1796, in Hartford, Conn. He was a New York littérateur whose varied writings include Tour in Italy; New Gazetteer of the United States; History of Connecticut; Summer Tour of New England; The Northern Traveler; The Roman Republic of 1849; The Kansas War; Life of Garibaldi; The Father's Book; First Lessons in Modern Greek; and School Dictionary of Roots and Derivatives. He died Oct. 16, 1866, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dwight, Theodore William

educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 18, 1822, in Catskill, N. Y. He was a jurist of note who was professor of municipal law in Columbia college; and the author of Argument in the Rose Will Case; Trial by Impeachment; and Prisons and Reformatories. He died June 28, 1892, in Clinton, N. Y.

Dwight, Thomas

educator, state senator, congressman. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1794 and 1795; a state senator from 1796 to 1803 and in 1813; a member of the executive council in 1808 and 1809; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1803 to 1805. He died in 1819.

Dwight, Thomas

educator, author, was born Oct. 13, 1843, in Boston, Mass.

He is a physician of Boston, and successor to O. W. Holmes as professor of anatomy in the Harvard Medical school. He is the author of Anatomy of the Head; and The Intracranial Circulation.

Dwight, Timothy

clergyman, college president, author, was born in 1822 in Connecticut. He is a congregational clergyman, president of Yale university from 1886, and one of the members of the New Testament Revision company. He is the author of The True Ideal of an American University.

Dwight, William Buck

scientist, was born May 22, 1833, in Turkey. He is a scientist who has been curator of Vassar College museum for many years.

Dwinell, Justin

congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1821 and 1822; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1823 to 1825.