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THEODORE WILLIAM DWIGHT - LoveToKnow Article on THEODORE WILLIAM DWIGHT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | (1822-1892), American jurist and educationalist, cousin of Theodore Dwight Woolsey and of Timothy Dwight, was born on the 18th of July 1822 in. |
 | | His father, Benjamin Woolsey Dwight (1780-1850), an abolitionist and reformer, removed to Clinton, New York, in 1831. |
 | | Dwight was an able jurist, frequently acted as referee in difficult questions, in 1874187 5 was a judge of the New York commission of appeals, appointed to clear the docket of the court of appeals, and in 1886 was counsel for the five Andover professors charged with heresy. |
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