=Dwight, Sereno Edwards.= _Ct._, 1786-1850. The fifth son of Timothy Dwight, _infra_. A Congregational clergyman and educator. Life of David Brainerd; The Hebrew Wife, an argument in opposition to marriage with a deceased wife’s sister; Select Discourses. He edited the Works of Jonathan Edwards, _infra_, in ten volumes, with Life. _See Memoir by W. T. Dwight._ =Dwight, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1764-1846. Brother of Timothy Dwight, _infra_. A once famous journalist of New York city, and a member of Congress, well known as a Federalist. History of the Hartford Convention; Character of Thomas Jefferson. _See Life and Writings, 1840._ =Dwight, Theodore.= _Ct._, 1796-1866. Son of T. Dwight, _supra_. A New York littérateur whose varied writings include Tour in Italy; New Gazetteer of the United States; History of Connecticut; Summer Tour of New England; The Northern Traveller; The Roman Republic of 1849; The Kansas War; Life of Garibaldi; The Father’s Book; First Lessons in Modern Greek; School Dictionary of Roots and Derivatives. =Dwight, Theodore William.= _N. Y._, 1822-1892. Grandson of Timothy Dwight, _infra_. A jurist of note who was professor of municipal law in Columbia College. Argument in the Rose Will Case; Trial by Impeachment; Prisons and Reformatories (with E. C. Wines, _infra_). =Dwight, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1843- ----. A physician of Boston, successor to O. W. Holmes, _infra_, as professor of anatomy in the Harvard Medical School. Anatomy of the Head; The Intracranial Circulation. _Hou._ =Dwight, Timothy.= _Ms._, 1752-1817. A Congregational clergyman who was a very prominent figure in the early history of the republic, and as president of Yale College, 1795-1817, of great influence as an educator as well. His most important work is Theology Explained and Defended in a Course of 173 Sermons, which has gone into more than one hundred editions. Other prose works are Genuineness and Authenticity of the Old Testament; Observations on Language; Essay on Light; Travels in New England and New York, which still furnishes entertaining reading. His writings in verse include The Conquest of Canaan, a very ponderous epic; Greenfield Hill, a pastoral; The Triumph of Infidelity, a satire. _See Sparks’s American Biography; Allibone’s Dictionary; Tyler’s Three Men of Letters, 1895._ =Dwight, Timothy.= _Ct._, 1828- ----. Grandson of Timothy Dwight, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman, president of Yale University, 1886-99, and one of the members of the New Testament Revision Company. The True Ideal of an American University. =Dwight, William Buck.= _Ty._, 1833- ----. Son of H. G. O. Dwight, _supra_. A scientist who has been curator of Vassar College Museum for many years. =Dyckman, Jacob.= _N. Y._, 1788-1822. A physician of New York city who was the author of Pathology of Human Fluids.