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 DWENGER

DWIGHT

treasurer of the Sundaj- school union and of the Church book society ; member of the New York historical society, New York genealogical and biographical society, and corresponding member of the N.E. historic, genealogical society. He published: Life of (reorye Herbert (1858); Life of Bishop Thomas Kew (1859); Life oj Jeremy Taylor (I860; ; Life of Bishop Hugh Latimer (1861) and left in manuscript unfinished. Life of Bishop Leighton. He died in New York city, March 30, 1863.

DWENGER, Joseph, R.C. bishop, was born near Minster, Auglaize coimty, Ohio, Jvme 1, 1837. He was educated in arts at Holy Trinity school, Cincinnati, Ohio, and in theology at Mt. St. Mary's seminary of the west. He was or- dained to the priesthood, Sept. 4, 1859, and was director, professor and missionary priest at St. Charles Borromeo seminary of the Congregation of the Precious Blood, Carthagenia, Ohio, 1859- 67. He then labored among mission stations in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, 1867-72, and was appointed bishop of Fort Wayne, as successor to the Rt. Rev. J. H. Lurens, D.D., deceased, and consecrated April 14, 1872, by Archbishop Pur- cell. In 1874 he went to Rome in the capacity of superior to the American pilgrims and made a second visit in 1883 on an official commission. In 1884 he attended the third plenary council in Baltimore and in 1885 represented the American hierarchy at Rome. He made his last visit to Pope Leo XIII. in 1888 on official business. He died in Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 29, 1893.

DWIGHT, Benjamin Woodbridge, educator, was born in New Haven, Conn., April 5, 1816; son of Dr. Benjamin Woolsey and Sophia Wbod- bridge (Strong) Dwight, and grandson of Presi- dent Timothy and Mary (Woolsey) Dwight, and of the Rev. Joseph and Sophia (Wood-

bridge) Strong. His father (1780-1850, Yale, 1799) was a trustee of Hamilton college, 1832-50, and author of " Chronic Debility of the Stomach" (1811), the first treatise on the subject pub- lished in America. Benjamin Wood- bridge was gradu- ated at Hamilton in 1835, and at Yale theological seminary in 1838. He was a tutor at Hamilton, 1839^2; founder and first pastor of the Congrega- tional church, Joliet, 111., 1844—46; founder and principal of the Dwight high school at Brooklyn.

N.Y., 1846-58, at Clinton, N.Y., 185.S-63, and in New York city, 1863-67. He returned to Clin- ton, N.Y., in 1867 and devoted himself to literary work. He was married, first July 29, 1846, to Wealthy Jane, daughter of Harvey and Betsey ]VIaria (Harrison) Dewey. She died in 1864, and on Dec. 22, 1865, he was married to Charlotte Sophia, daughter of Townsend and Anne Bur- rouglis (Norris) Parish. He received the hono- rary degree of Ph.D. from the University of the city of New York and that of LL.D. from Ham- ilton in 1862. He edited the Chicago i/(feno?- in 1872, and published: Higher Christian Education (ISod) ; 3Iodern Philology (2 vols., lHQi) ; History of the Strong Family (2 vols., 1871) ; History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham, Mass (3 vols., 187A) ; Higher Culture of Women; and The True Doctrine of Divine Providence. He died at Clinton, N.Y., in 1889.

DWIGHT, Charles Chauncey, jurist, was born in Richmond, Mass., Sept. 15, 1830; son of Edwin (Wells) and Mary (Sherrill) Dwight of Richmond, Berkshire county, Mass. ; grandson of Henry Williams and Abigail (Welles) Dwight of Stockbridge, Mass., and of Henry and Lois (Chitsej^) Sherrill; great-grandson of Gen. Joseph and Abigail (Williams) Dwight, and a descendant of John Dwight of Dedham, Mass., 1634-35. He was graduated at Williams col- lege in 1850, was principal of Coxsackie (N.Y.> academy, 1850-51, and was admitted to the bar in Albany, N.Y., in 1853, removing in 1854 to Auburn, N.Y., where he was elected county judge in 1859. On the outbreak of the civil war he raised a company of infantry and was elected its captain. He served in the department of the Gulf, was promoted assistant adjutant general and in 1862 was made colonel of the 160th N.Y. volunteers. When the war closed he was mus- tered out of the volunteer service as colonel and resumed the practice of law in Auburn, N.Y. He was a member of the New York constitu- tional convention in 1867-68, and in March, 1868, was appointed justice of the supreme court for the 7th judicial district of New York. He was re-elected in 1869, 1877 and 1891, his term expir- ing in 1900. He was married July 29, 1868, to Emma, daughter of James M. and Ann (Sher- wood) Munro of Camillus, N.Y. He was elected trustee of Auburn theological seminary in 1874, and was trustee of Cornell university, 1878-83. He received from Williams college the degree of LL.D. in 1874.

DWIGHT, Edmund, merchant, was born in Springfield, Mass., Nov. 28, 1780; son of Jona- than and lilargeret (A.shley), grandson of Ed- mund and Elizabeth (Scutt), great-grandson of Capt. Henry and Lydia (Hawley), great- grand- son of Timothy and Anne (Flint), and great'