Reminiscences of the Life and Character of Benjamin Woolsey Dwight, M.D.

SCARCE MEMORIAL BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES OF PROMINENT NEW YORK COUPLE BY A SON, THIS COPY SIGNED BY ANOTHER SON, DEAN AT COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, pebbled black cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to cover, In Memoriam, ink signature front endpaper, Theo. W. Dwight; 91 pp divided into 3 sections: 1) In Memoriam, Benjamin Woolsey Dwight; 2) A Brief Sketch of Dr. B. W. Dwight, published by permission from the sermon, delivered at his funeral, from Mark 6:20 by Rev. Simeon North, D.D., then President of Hamilton College; 3) Reminiscences of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sophia Woodbridge Dwight (1793-1861) by Rev. E.Y. Swift, with additions by Rev. B.W. Dwight, January 1, 1862. Covers are clean and bright, but corners worn through and spine lacking; binding, endpapers, and text crisp and unmarked. INTRODUCTION: This little volume, of which but a very small number of copies has been printed, has not been prepared at all for general circulation, but only for the use of the immediate relatives and friends of tlie deceased. . This brief Memorial of the loved parents, whose moral portraiture it contains, is dedicated, on the one hand, to their children, who know so well how inadequate is any representation, made in a few hasty pages, of the full real beauty of lives so pure as theirs, and so productive of every good; and, on the other, to their grandchildren, no one of whom ever knew either of their honored grandparents as they really were, and to whom, therefore, it has been. both a special aim and a special pleasure, to bring the fresh and fragrant recollections of their parents concerning them. PROVENANCE: THEODORE WILLIAM DWIGHT (1822"1892), American jurist and educator, was born in Catskill, New York. His father was Benjamin Woolsey Dwight (1780"1850), a physician and merchant, and his grandfather was Timothy Dwight IV (1752"1817), a prominent theologian, educator, author, and president of Yale University from 1795-1817. Theodore Dwight graduated from Hamilton College in 1840 where he studied physics under Samuel F.B. Morse and John William Draper. In 1858, he accepted an invitation to develop a department of law at Columbia. He was the sole professor of law at Columbia until the department was expanded in 1873, eventually becoming Columbia Law School. He served as the dean at Columbia Law School until 1891. That year, he and other faculty, students, and alumni protested the Columbia trustees attempts to convert the law school to the case method, and left to found New York Law School. BENJAMIN WOOLSEY DWIGHT, M.D. (1780-1850), as described in this book, While yet an infant asleep in his cradle, his nurse carelessly emptied in passing by, a basin of cold water upon him that threw him at once into convulsions, terminating in the phthisic which afflicted him to the end of his days and greatly influenced his subsequent history. . He entered Yale College in the Sophomore year of the class of 1799 . Choosing in the end the Medical Profession, for which also his strong domestic qualities were no mean recommendation; he pursued his studies, shortafter his graduation; at Philadelphia under the celebrated prs. Rush and Pbysic, of both of whom he always spoke afterwards with great respect. . was compelled reluctantly, by his inability to endure the constant interruptions to his sleep that occurred, and the fatigue and exposure of night-rides, abandon forever the noble profession that he had chosen, and for success in which he possessed the largest qualifications. . In relinquishing the medical profession in 1805, he left Catskill and returned again to New Haven, where lie became his father's private secretary and amanuensis in the employment of the College . He next became established in the city of New York in the Hardbusiness, and was doing well in it, when the of 1812 with Great Britain broke him up. In the spring of 1815 he was married to Miss Sophia Woodbridge Strong of South Hadley, Mass., was exceedingly feeble at the time. By his medical skill and heroic diligence in the use of stimulants, tonics, and travelling long pursued, he succeeded in restoring her health, which was so poor at her marriage that she could not walk across her sick room without spitting blood, to a very considerable degree of its original vigor. They became the parents of six children, three sons and three daughters in alternate order, all of whom they each lived to see grown . In the spring of 1831, at the age of fifty-one years, he moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., NY . His health became greatly better at Clinton than at Catskill. He died at the ripe age of seventy years, May 18th, 1850, of pleurisy terminating in congestion of the brain. BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE DWIGHT (1816-1889) graduated from Hamilton College in 1835 and the Yale Theological Seminary in 1838. He returned to Hamilton College to work as a tutor until 1842. He founded the Congregational church at Joliet, Illinois in 1844 and served as its pastor for two years. After moving to Brooklyn, New York in 1846, he founded a private high school, which he operated for 12 years. In 1858 he moved back to Clinton and opened Dwight's Rural High School, with Reverend David A. Holbrook and Henry P. Bristol as associates. In 1863 Dwight opened another similar school in New York City on Broadway. In 1867 Dwight returned to Clinton and devoted his time to writing, including works on education, philology, a short biography of his father and a massive two-volume history of thousands of his cousins and ancestors.

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