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 192 DUTTON. DWIGHT. with his father, at Hillsborough Bridge, N. H., for seven years. He then came to Boston, in 1859, and went into the small ware and millinery jobbing business, in which he remained fifteen years, first in the firm of B. F. Dutton & Co., then Button & Wyman, then Brown & Dutton, and lastly, B. F. Dutton & Co. While always successful, so far as his own financial management was concerned, he passed through many vicissitudes inci- dent to the trade during these years, but never weakening under pressure, and always preserving his commercial integrity and gaining in financial ability. No BENJAMIN F. DUTTON. obstacle has ever presented itself, however insuperable in aspect, that he has not been able to overcome or circumvent by a change of financial tactics. For the last fifteen years Mr. Dutton has been asso- ciated as partner and financial manager in the well-known house of Houghton & Dutton, Boston. This was one of the first " department " stores established in this country, and from a comparatively modest beginning has grown until it has assumed its present colossal proportions. Mr. Dutton was first married in Hills- borough, in 185 1, to Harriet L., daughter of Dr. Elisha and Sophia (Kiifgsbury) Hatch. Of this union were three children : Ellen, Harry and Hattie Dutton. His second marriage was in Enfield, N. H, in 1S60, to Harriet M., daughter of George W. and Louisa A. (Merrill) Conant. Their children are: Cora, Frank, George C, Clara M. and Nina Dutton. Mr. Dutton is connected with the Con- gregational church. He is, and has always been, a Democrat, having cast his first vote for Franklin Pierce. DWIGHT, John Sullivan, son of Dr. John Dwightof Boston (Harvard 1800), and Mary (Corey) Dwight, was born in Boston, May 13, 1813. His early school days were passed in home and private school instruc- tion, later on in grammar and Latin schools, five years under B. A. Gould and F. P. Leverett. He entered Harvard in 1828, and was graduated in the class of 1832. He then entered Harvard divinity school, and was graduated in 1836. He then preached in Unitarian churches six years ; settled in Northampton one year ; joined the Brook Farm Association, where he remained five years teaching classics and music, farming, gardening, etc., and editing the " Harbinger." He established " Dwight's Journal of Music " in April, 1852 ; owned and edited it until September, 1881. Long previous to this, as early as 1839, he had published a volume of translations of smaller poems of Goethe and Schiller. His tastes were literary, and his time at present is spent in his home in Boston, in literary and critical work. Mr. Dwight was married in Boston, in 1S51, to Mary, daughter of Silas and Mary (Barrett) Bullard, who died in i860, leav- ing no issue. Mr. Dwight is a trustee of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. He is president of the Harvard Musical Association, an office he has held for the past sixteen years, and is a recognized au- thority on all matters pertaining to the history and interpretation of music, which finds Boston so congenial a home. To none more than Mr. Dwight is perhaps due the prominence and perfection which that art has acquired in the city of his birth. DWIGHT, William George, son of Dr. William and Helen M. (Clark) Dwight, was born in Bernardston, Franklin county, September 21, 1859. His preparatory studies were in the dis- trict schools of Bernardston, the Powers Institute of that town, and in the Amherst high school. He was graduated from Am-