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Dwight, Benjamin Woolsey, physician, author, was born Feb. 10, 1780, in Northampton, Mass. He was treasurer of Hamilton college in 1831-50. He published the first article ever printed in this country on Chronic Debility of the Stomach. He died May 18, 1850, in Clinton, N. Y. Dwight, Charles Abbott Schneider, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 7, 1860, in Englewood, N. J. In 1884-1903 he was engaged in

missionary work in Turkey. For ten years he was pastor at Closter, N. J. He is now pastor of the second congregational church at Winchester, Mass., which he was instrumental in organizing. He is the author of The Carpenter; Railroading With Christ; Cruising for the Cross; and other works. Dwight, Charles C, lawyer, jurist. In 1890-1902 he was justice of the supreme court of New York for the seventh district.

Dwight, Edmund, merchant, founder, was born Nov. 28, 1780, in Springfield, Mass. In 1815 he established the house of William H. and J. W. Dwight, which founded the manufacturing villages of Chicopee Falls in 1822, Chicopee in 1831, and Holyoke in 1847. It was chiefly through his exertions that the Massachusetts state board of education was established, and he was the first to propose the present normal school system. In 1838 he pledged ten thousand dollars for its establishment, on condition that the legislature should appropriate an equal amount, which was promptly done. He was for many years a member of the Massachusetts legislature, and one of the founders of the American antiquarian society in 1812. He died April 1, 1849, in Boston, Mass.

Dwight, Edmund, merchant, author, was born Sept. 3, 1824, in Boston, Mass. In 1871 he went abroad to superintendent the distribution of the fund raised by subscription in Boston for the relief of the suffering caused in France by the war with Germany; and on his return he published an interesting Report to the Executive Committee of the French Relief Fund. He died June 6, 1900, in Boston, Mass. Dwight, Edwin Welles, clergyman, author, was bom in 1789 in Massachusetts. He was the author of History of Berkshire County. He died in 1S41 in Richmond, Mass. Dwight, Edwin Welles, physician, author, was born Aug. 11. 1863, in Auburn. N. Y. Since 1890 he has practiced medicine in Boston. Mass.; and has been professor of legal medicine at Tufts college medical school. He is the author of Medical Jurisprudence; and Toxicology. Dwight, Francis, lawyer, educator, journal-

was born March

14, 1808, in Springfield, In 1840 he established in Albany the District School Journal. He was active in devising and establishing the present code of public instruction in the state of New York; in establishing the normal school, county suist,

Mass.

pervision, and conventions of teachers. died Dec. 15, 1845, in Albany, N. Y.

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Dwight, Harrison Gray Otis, missionary, was born in 1803 in Massachusetts. He was a congregational missionary to Armenia. He was the author of Researches of author,

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Armenia; Christianity

East; and Catalogue of Armenian Literature in the Middle Ages. He was killed Jan. 25, 1863, in a railroad acci-

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Dwight, Henry Edwin, educator, author, was born April 19, 1797, in New Haven, Conn. He was the author of Travels in the North of Germany. He died Aug. 11, 1833, in

New

Haven, Conn. Dwight, Henry Otis, soldier, author, was born in 1843 in Turkey. He was a federal officer during the civil war; and was a correspondent of the New York Tribune from Constantinople in 1876-79. He is the author of Turkish Life in War Times. Dwight, Henry Williams, state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1788, in Stockbridge, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature in 1818-34. In 1821-31 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twentyfirst

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died Feb.

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Dwight, Jeremiah W., business man, state congressman, was born in Cincinnatus, N.Y. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1860-61; and legislator,

was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1868. He was president of the Dwight farm and land company of Dakota. In 1877-83 he was a representative from New York to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a republi-

He died Nov. 26, 1885, in New York. 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 Sept. 5, 1893, in Boston, Mass. Dwight, John Wilbur, banker, congressman, was born May 24, 1859, in Dryden, N. can.

Y. In 1901-n he was a member of the fiftyseventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican.

Dwight, Joseph, soldier, lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born Oct. 16, 1703, in Dedham, Mass. He was a distinguished jurist of Worcester and Berkshire counties in 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 Massachusetts state legislature; and was speaker of the house in 1749. He died June 9, 1765, in Great Barrington, Mass