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 DWIGHT

DWIGHT

Chicago theological seminary in 1869 and from Yale in 1886, and the degree of LL.D. from Har- vard in 1886, and from the College of New Jersey in 1883. He was associate editor of the New Eng- laiuler from 1866; and was a niember of the American committee for the revision of the Eng- lish version of the Bible, 1872-85 ; editor of sev- eral volumes of the American edition of Meyer's Commentary of the Xeio Testament to which he added extended notes; and of Godefs Commentary on St John's Gospel which, in its third edition, he translated and to which he added a preface, introductory suggestions and extended annota- tions. He is the author of The True Ideal of an American University, originally published in the Neio Enylander, and of Thoughts of and for the In- ner Life (1899), made up from selections from his sermons preached in the college chapel dm-ing his presidency.

DWIQHT, William, soldier, was born in Springfield, Mass., July 14, 1831; son of William and Elizabeth Amelia (White) Dwight ; grandson of Jonathan and Sarah (Shepard) Dwight, and of Judge Daniel Appleton and Mary (Wilder) White ; great-grandson of Jonathan and Marga- ret (Ashley), great^ grandson of Capt. Edmund and Elizabeth (Scutt), gi-eat^ grandson of Henry and Lydia (Hawley), great* grandson of Timo- thy and Anna (Flint), and great^ grandson of John and Hannah Dwight, Dedham, 1634-35. He was a student at a preparatory military school. West Point, N.Y., 1846-49, ami a cadet at the U. S. military academy, 1849-53. He resigned in 1853 to engage in manufacturing in Boston. He was married, Jan. 1, 1856, to Anna;, daughter of Thomas and Sibyl (Washburn) Robeson of New Bedford, Mass. He entered the U.S. army. May 14, 1861, and was commissioned captain in the 13th U.S. infantry and in Jvme of that year was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 70tli N.Y. vohmteers, commanded by Col. Daniel E. Sickles. At the battle of W^illiamsburg, where the 70th New York lost half their men, lie was twice wounded, left for dead on the field, taken prisoner and exchanged. This action gained for him promotion to the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862. He led the advance at the storming of Port Hudson and for his brav- ery was appointed a member of the commission to receive the surrender of the Confederate forces. He was chief of staff to Gen. N. P. Banks in the Red River expedition after May, 1864, and in July was assigned to the command of the 1st division, 19th army corps, and was prominent in the campaign of the Slienandoah valley, Va., under Sheridan, notably at Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek. He resigned Jan. 15, 1866, and engaged in business in Cincinnati, Ohio. He died in Boston. Mass., April 21, 1888.

DWIGHT, William Buck, scientist, was born in Constantinople, Turkey, 3Iay 22, 1833; son of the Rev. Harrison Gray Otis and Elizabeth (Bar- ker) Dwight. He was graduated at Yale A.B. in 1854, A.M. in 1857, and Ph.B. in 1859, and at Union theological seminary, New York city, in 1857. He was founder and principal of En- glewood, N.J., female institute, 1859-65 ; and made mining explor- ations in Virginia and Missouri, 1865-67. He was teacher in the U.S. officers' family school, West Point, N.Y., 1867-70; assist- ant principal and pro- fessor of natural sciences. State nor- mal school. New Britain, Conn., 1870- 78 ; editor of the School Journal., 1872-75 ; professor of zoology in the sum- mer school, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., 1878-90, and professor of natural history and curator of the museum, Vassar college, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., after 1878. In 1894 he was appointed by the state board of regents, examiner in geology for the university educational courses. He was editor of the department of geology of the '' Standard Dictionary " during the entire work of its construction, 1891-93. He made a detailed stratigraphic and paleontological exi^loration of Dutchess county, N.Y., developing a new series of Cambrian and Ordovician fauna, and discover- ing specially unique and important sets of fossils in the paradoxides horizon of the Cambrian and in the calciferous of the Ordovician. He also made similar researches in the taconic limestones of Canaan, Columbia county, N.Y. Some of the results were published in tlie American Journal of Science.

DWIQHT, William Theodore, clergyman, was born in Greenfield Hill, Conn., June 15, 1795; son of Pres. Timothy and Mary (Woolsey), and grand.son of Maj. Timothy and Maiy (Edwards) Dwight. He was graduated at Yale in 1813; was tutor there, 1817-19; studied law in the office of Charles Chauncey and practised in Philadelphia, 1821-31; then studied theology, and was or- dained in 1832. He was pastor of the 3d Congre- gational church, Portland, Maine, 1832-64. He was prominent in church councils and religious work. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Bowdoin in 1846, and was an over.seer there, 1839-60. He published numerous .sermons and dis- courses, and a memoir of Sereno Edwards Dwight. He died in Andover, Mass., Oct. 22, 1865.