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books into Spanish aud Portugese for the schools of the South American republics; published: -1 Tour in Italy in 1S21 (182-i) ; Xew Gazetteer of the United States (1833) ; President DwighCs Decisions (1833); History of Connecticut (1841); Northern Traveller (1841); Summer Toiir of Xew England (1847); TJie Boman Bepuhlic of 1849 (1851); The Kansas War (1859), and edited Autobiography of General Garibaldi (1859). He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 16, 1866.

DWIGHT, Theodore William, educator, was born inCatskill, N.Y., July 18, 1822; son of Dr. Benjamin Woolsey and Sophia Woodbridge (Strong) Dvvight, and grandson of President Timothy and Mary (Woolsey) Dwight, and of the Rev. Joseph and Sojihia (Woodbridge) Strong. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1840, studied law at Yale, 1841 -42 ; received his mas- ter's degree in 1843, was tutor at Hamilton, 1842- 46; professor of jurisprudence, civil and political economy and historj^, 1846-58, and trustee of the college, 1875-92. He removed to New York city in 1858, and was professor of law in Columbia college, 1858-78; professor of the law of con- tracts, maritime and admiralty' law, 1878-92; dean of the law faculty, 1864-91, and member of the university council, 1890-91. As he was not willing to conform to the Harvard plan of study introduced by Prof. William A. Keener and in- dorsed by President Low and the trustees, he resigned in February, 1891, as dean of the law school, and was made professor emeritus, Profes- sor Keener succeeding him as dean. He was a member of the New York constitutional conven- tion of 1867 ; of the commission of appeals formed in 1874 to share the labors of the court of ajjpeals of the state of New York, aud served till the close of the commission in 1875. He was vice- president of the State charities aid association, 1873, president of the Prison association, 1874 ; a member of the American geographical society, and first vice-president of the New York bar association. In 1869-71 he lectured at Cornell, where he was elected non-resident professor of constitutional law, and he lectured at Amherst, 1870-72. He was associate editor of the American Law Begister and in 1886 was counsel for five Andover theological seminar}' professors, charged with heterodoxy. He received the honorary de- gree of LL.D. from Hamilton and Rutgers in 1859, from Cohmibia in 1860, and from Yale in 1892. He published: Argument on the Boss Will and Charity Case (2 vols., 1863) ; Trial by Impeach- ment (1867) and Influence of the Writings of James Harrington on American Political Institutions ri887). He prepared in association with Dr. Enoch C. Wines Prisons and Beformatories in the United States, and edited Maine's Ancient Law (1864). He died in Clinton, N.Y., June 28, 1892.

DWIGHT, Thomas, representative, was boru in Springfield, Mass., Oct. 29, 1758; son of Col. Josiah and Elizabeth (Buckminster) Dwight; grandson of Capt. Henry and Lydia (Havvley) Dwight; great-grandson of Capt. Timothy and Anna (Flint) Dwight; and great^ grandson of John and Hannah Dwight, Dedham, 1634-35. He was graduated at Harvard in 1778, was a state representative, 1794-95, a state senator, 1796- 1803, and again in 1813; a member of the ex- ecutive council, 1808-09; and a representative in the 8th U.S. congress, 1803-05. He was a trustee of Williams college, 1809-17. He was married to Hannah, daughter of Col. John and Hannah (Hopkins) Worthington, and grand- daughter of the Rev. Samuel and Esther (Ed- wards) Hoi>kins. Esther Edwards was a sister of Jonathan Edwards. Mrs. Dwight was distin- guished for her wit and beauty. Thomas Dwight died in Springfield, Mass., Jan. 2, 1819.

DWIGHT, Thomas^ educator, was born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 13, 1843. He studied at Har- vard coUege, and was graduated at Harvard medical school in 1867 with the first Boylston prize. He studied in the hospitals of Europe, 1868-69; was instructor in comparative anatomy, Harvard, 1872-73 ; professor of anatomy and lect- urer at Bowdoin, 1872-76 ; instructor in histology at Harvard, 1874-83; in topographical anatomy at Harvard, 1880-83, and successor to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes as Parkman professor of anat- omy and physiology from 1883. He was editor of the Boston Medical Journal, 1873-78, and gave a course of lectures at the Lowell institute on " IMechanism of the bone and muscle " in 1884. He was elected a fellow of the American acad- emy of arts and sciences ; a member of the St. Thomas Aquinas academy of philosophy and medicine (Rome), and president of the Catholic union of Boston. He received the degree of A.B. from Harvard in 1872, and that of LL.D. fi-om Georgetown (D.C.) in 1889. He is the author of Anatomy of the Head, The Intercranial Circxdation and several papers on human and vertebrate anatomy.

DWIGHT, Timothy, educator, was born in Northampton, Mass., May 14, 1752; son of Maj. Timothy and Mary (Edwards) Dwight; grandson of Col. Timothy and Experience (King) Dwight, and of Jonathan and Sarah (Pierpont) Edwards: great-grandson of Nathaniel and Mehitable (Partridge) Dwight; great- grandson of Capt. Timothy and Anna (Flint) Dwight, and great^ grandson of John and Hannah Dwight of Ded- ham, the immigrants, 1634—35. He was graduated at Yale in 1769, sharing with Nathan Strong the honors of the class. He was principal of Hop- kins grammar school, 1769-71; tutor at Yale, 1771-77, during which time he studied law ; was