Dwight, Henry Williams – Dyer, Charles Volney
Dwight, Henry Williams
state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1788, in Stockbridge, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1818 and 1834; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1821 to 1831. He died Feb. 21, 1845, in New York.
Dwight, Jeremiah W
business man, state legislator, congressman, was born in Cincinnatus, N. Y. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1860 and 1861; and was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1868. He was president of the Dwight Farm and Land company of Dakota; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fifth, fortysixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a republican. He died Nov. 26, 1885.
Dwight, John Sullivan
journalist, author, poet, was born May 13, 1813, in Boston, Mass. He was a distinguished musical critic of Boston, and the editor of Dwight's Journal of Music in 1852-81.
He was the author of a History of Music in Boston and the poem God Save the State. He died in 1893.
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
lawyer, journalist, state senator, congressman, author, was born Dec. 6, 1764, in Northampton, Mass. For a number of years he was a state senator in Connecticut; and was a representative in congress from Connecticut during the years 1806 and 1807. In 1815 he established the Albany Daily Advertiser; and in 1817 founded the New York Daily Advertiser, which he conducted with signal ability until 1836, when he removed to Hartford, Conn., and retired from active life. He was one of the founders of the American Bible society; and wrote a Life of Thomas Jefferson; A Dictionary of Roots and Derivations; and A History of the Hartford Convention.
He died June 11, 1846, in New York.
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
educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born May 14, 1752, in Northampton, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman who was a very prominent figure in the early history of the republic, and as president of Yale college, 1795-1817, of great influence as an educator as well. His most important work is Theology Explained and Defended in a Course of One Hundred and Seventy-three Sermons, which has gone into more than one hundred editions.
Other prose works are Genuineness and Authenticity of the Old Testament; Observations on Language; Essay on Light; Travels in New England and New York, which still furnishes entertaining reading.
His writings in verse include The Conquest of Canaan, a very ponderous epic; Greenfield Hill, a pastoral; and The Triumph of Infidelity, a satire. He died Jan. 11, 1817, in New Haven, Conn.
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.
Dwyer, Edward A
was born May 12, 1858, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is prominent in railroad unions, and was president of the local union of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid association of North America in 1894.
Dwyer, Jeremiah
manufacturer, was born Aug. 22, 1837, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
In 1871 Mr. Dwyer and others organized the well-known Michigan Stove company, of which he is president. He is also a director of the People's Savings bank of Detroit; and vice-president of Buck Stove and Range company.
Dyatt, Hugh
miner, legislator, was born July 19, 1850, in County Antrim, Province Ulster, Ireland. He is of Scotch and Irish descent; attended the country schools; and was reared in the presbyterian belief. His early days were spent in agricultural pursuits; and in 1877 moved to Colorado, where he has since been principally engaged in mining. In 1892 he was elected a member of the ninth general assembly of the state of Colorado, receiving the unanimous nomination of both republican and populist conventions. He is a man of strong convictions, and takes advanced ground in all public matters; and is interested in everything pertaining to the public welfare of his state. He has been successful in his mining operations and owns extensive mining property near Leadville, Colo.
He was the organizer of the Merchants State bank of Almena, and is its vice-president. In 1898 he was a candidate for the Colorado state senate.
Dyckman, Jacob
physician, author, was born in 1788 in New York. He was a physician of New York city who was the author of Pathology of Human Fluids.
He died in 1822.
Dye, William Mcentyre
soldier, author, was born Jan. 26, 1831, in Washington, Pa. He was brevetted brigadiergeneral in 1865. He served in the army until 1879; when he entered the civil service in Washington, D. C. He is the author of Moslem Egypt and Christian Abyssinia, or Military Service under the Khedive.
Dyer, Alexander Brydie
soldier, was born Jan. 10, 1815, in Richmond, Va.
In 1837 he graduated from West Point; and for the following ten years performed garrison and ordnance in different parts of the country. For his services during the Mexican war he was brevetted first lieutenant and captain. In 1864 he was promoted to be chief of ordnance, with the rank of brigadier-general. And in 1865 he was brevetted major-general for faithful, meritorious and distinguished services. He held the position of chief of ordnance until his death, and during his incumbency he increased in many ways the efficiency of the service. He died May 20, 1874, in Washington, D. C.
Dyer, Mrs. Catherine Cornelia
(JOY), author, was born in Ludlowville, N. Y. She is the author of Henry and the Bird's Nest; Sunny Days Abroad; Brief History of the Joy Family; and Records of the Dyer Family.
Dyer, Charles E
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 5, 1824, in Cicero, N. Y. In 1859 he was elected city attorney of Racine, Wis.; and was re-elected in 1860. In 1866 he was elected a representative in the state legislature, and was re-elected in 1867. In 1875 he was appointed United States district judge for the eastern district of Wisconsin.
Dyer, Charles Volney
abolitionist, was born June 12, 1808, in Clarendon, Vt. He removed in 1835 to Chicago, and soon became acting surgeon in Fort Dearborn. He was successful in his practice and business adventures, retiring from the former in 1854, and becoming agent for the underground railroad in Chicago. He died April 24, 1878, in Lake View, Ill.