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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Dwight, Mary Ann, educator, author, was born in 1806 in Massachusetts. She was a teacher

of

drawing and painting

in

New

York City. She was the author of Grecian and Roman Mythology; Introduction to the Study

of Art; and Art as a Branch of cation. She died in December, 1858, in risiania, N.Y.

EduMor-

Dwight, Nathaniel, physician, clergyman, author, was born in 1770 in Massachusetts. He was a physician and clergyman of Rhode

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Island and Connecticut; and published the first school geography in America. He was the author of The Great Question Answered and A Compendious History of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. He died in 1831 in Connecticut. Dwight, Serene Edwards, educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1786 in Connecticut. He was the author of Life of David Brainerd; The Hebrew Wife; and Select Discourses. He edited the Works of Jonathan Edwards. Died Nov. 30, 1850, in Philadelphia. Dwight, Susan Edwards, litterateur, author, was born in 1788. She aided her husband in preparing the works pf Jonathan Edwards; and published an Abridgment of the Memoirs of Mrs. Susan Huntington. She died in 1851 in Boston, Mass. Dwight, Theodore, lawyer, journalist, founder, congressman, author, was born Dec. 6, 1764, in Northampton, Mass. For a number of years he was a member of the Connecticut state senate ;and in 1805-07 he was a representative from Connecticut to the ninth congress. In 1815 he established the Albany Daily Advertiser; and in 1817 founded the New York Daily Advertiser, which he con-

ducted with signal ability until 1836. He was one of the founders of the American bible society. He was the author of 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

City.

Dwight, Theodore, litterateur, author, was born March 3, 1796, in Hartford, Conn. He was the author of Tour in Italy; New Gazetteer of the L^nited 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. 18, 1866, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Dwight, Theodore William, educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 18, 1833, in Catskill, N.Y. He became professor of municipal law in Columbia college in 1858. In 1874 he was made a judge of the commission of appeal. He was the author of Argument in the Rose Will Case; Trial by Impeachment; and Prisons and Reformatories. He died June 38, 1892, in Clinton, N.Y. Dwight, Thomas, educator, state senator, congressman, was born in Massachusetts. He

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was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature in 1794-95 ; was a state senator in 1796-1803 and in 1813; and was a member of the executive council in 1808-09; was a representative from Massachusetts to the eighth congress. He died in 1819 in Massachusetts. Dwight, Thomas, educator, physician, auwas born Oct. 13, 1843, in Boston, Mass. In 1873-78 he was editor of the Boston Medical Journal. He was a physician of Boston; and successor to 0. W. Holmes as professor of anatomy in the Harvard medical school. He is the author of Anatomy of

thor,

the Head; and The Intracranial Circulation.

Dwight,

Timothy, educator,

clergyman,

college president, author, poet, was born May 14, 1752, in Northampton, Mass. He was president of Yale college in 1795-1817. 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. Othei prose works are Genuineness and Authenticity of the Old Testament; Observations on Language; Essay on Light; and Travels in New England and New York. His poetical works are The Conquest of Canaan, Greenfield Hill, a pastoral; and The Triumph ot Infidelity, a satire.

He

died Jan. 11, 1817, in

New

Haven, Conn. Dwight, Timothy,

clergyman,

educator,

college president, author, was born Nov. 16, 1828, in Norwich, Conn. He was president ol Yale university in 1886-99; and one of the

of the New testament revision company. He is the author of Thoughts of and for the Inner Life; and the translator and editor of the American edition of Godet's

members

Commentary on

St. John's Gospel.

Dwight, William,

soldier,

was born July

14,

1831, in Springfield, Mass. At the battle ot Williamsburg half the regiment were killed or wounded. For his gallantry on this occasion he was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers. He died April 21, 1888, in Boston.

Dwight, William Buckley, educator, geowas born May 22, 1833, in Turkey. In 1859 he founded a young ladies' boarding-school in Englewood, N.J. In 1870 he was principal of the Ofiieers' family school at West Point military academy. From 1878 until his death he was professor of natural science and curator at the museum of Vassar college. In 1894 he was appointed one of the state examiners in geology. He made explorations in Dutchess county, N.Y. and collected new fossils in his county. He invented a petrotom, a malogist, founder, scientist,



chine for cutting minerals and fossils. He was a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He died in

1906 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Dwinell, Justin, congressman, was born in Cazenovia, N.Y. He was a member of the New York state assembly in 1821-22. In 1823-