DWIGHT
D WIGHT
of Boston and one of the founders and a member of
the community at Brook Farm, Roxburj-, Mass.,
1842-48, where he taught Latin, Greek, German
and music. He contributed to the Harbinger, the
Boston Dial and the Christian Examiner, and after
1848 devoted himself
to musical criticism
and to lecturing in
the various cities of
the United States on
the lives and works
of the great musical
composers. In April,
18.13, he established
Dinight's Journal of
Music and was its sole
editor during its ex-
istence, 1852-81. He
suggested the estab-
lishment of the sj-m-
phony concerts of or-
chestra and chamber music which led to the
erection of Music hall, Boston ; founded the Har-
vard musical association, and served as its presi-
dent, 1874-93, and was an early advocate of the
musical education of the masses. He was mar-
ried in 1851 to Mary, daughter of Silas and Mary
(Barrett) BuUard. She died in 1860 while her
husband was absent in Europe. They had no
children. He supported the works of Bach,
Handel and Beethoven, and opposed the music
represented by the compositions of Wagner, Ber-
lioz and Rubinstein. He was a trustee of the
Perkins institution and Massachusetts school for
the blind, and a member of the Saturday, the
Town and Country and the St. Botolph clubs. He
contributed a sketch of the history of music in
Boston, 1840-81, to The Memorial History of Bos-
ton and contributed numerovis articles to the
Atlantic Monthly, the Nev: England Magazine, the
Unitarian Review and the Boston Transcript. He
wrote Crod Save the State; translated the minor
poems of Schiller and Goethe in 1839; and had
nearly completed Charles S. Perkins's History
of the Handel and Haydn Society, 1815-1890.
See John Sullivan Dwight, Brook-Farmer, Editor
and Critic of Music (1898) by George Willis Cooke.
He died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 5,' 1893.
DWIGHT, Joseph, soldier, was born in Ded- ham, Mass., Oct. 16, 1703; son of Capt. Henry and Lydia (Hawley) Dwight of Hatfield; grand- son of Capt. Timothy and Anna (Flint) Dwight, and great-grandson of Jolin and Hannah Dwight, immigrants, of Dedham, 1634-35. He wa.s grad- uated at Harvard, A. B.,' 1722, A.M., 1725. He was a merchant in Springfield, Mass., 1723-31; a lawyer in Brookfield, Mass., 1733-52; a member of the colonial council eleven times, and its speaker, 1748-49; judge of the court of common
pleas of Worcester county, 1739; colonel and
brigadier-general of the state militia and second
in command at the attack on Louisburg, 1745,
when he led the '" Ancient and honorable com-
pany of artillery of Boston and received the
commendation of General Pepperell. He served
in the Fi-ench and Indian war as commander of a
brigade of Massachusetts militia in the campaign
of Lake Champlain, 1756. He removed to Stock-
bridge, Mass., in 1752, was trustee of Indian
schools and chief justice of the Hampshire county
court of common pleas, 1753-61. Removing to
Great Barrington, Mass., in 1758, he was judge
of the court and judge of probate, 1761-65. He
died in Great Barrington, Mass.. June 19, 1765.
DWIQHT, Louis, philanthropist, was born in Stockbridge, Mass., March 25, 1793; son of Henry Williams and Abigail (Welles) Dwight, and brother of Henry W^ilhams, and of the Rev. Ed- win Welles, Yale, 1809, trustee of Williams, 1832- 41, and author of '• History of Berkshire County " (1839). Louis was graduated at Yale in 1813, and at Andover in 1819 ; was agent of the Amer- ican tract society, 1819-21, and of the Education society, 1831-24, and was ordained at Salem, Mass., Nov. 27, 1822. He was mai-ried. May 30, 1834, to Louisa, daughter of Nathaniel and Han- nah (Barker) Willis, and sister of N. P. Willis. In 1824 while distributing books to prisoners in the various penal institutions in the United States, he was a witness of various abuses and inhumanities visited upon prisoners, which led him to expose the same and to aid in forming the Prison discipline society of Boston, of which he was secretary and manager, 1825-54. He visited the prisons of Europe in 1846, and published twenty -nine annual reports of the Prison disci- pline society. See Memoir by William Jenks (1856). He died in Boston, Mass., July 13, 1854.
DWIQHT, Nathaniel, physician, was born in Northampton, Mass., Jan. 31, 1770; son of Maj. Timothy and Mary (Ed«"ards) Dwight. He was educated for a physician and practised in Hart- ford, Conn., and was assistant surgeon in the U.S. army, stationed on Governor's island, New York harbor. He subsequently practised at Westfield, Mass., New London and Weathersfield, Conn. In 1812 he entered the ministry and was I^astor at Westchester, Conn., 1812-20. He after- ward resumed the practice of medicine and was located first at Providence, R.I., and afterward at Norwich. Conn., and Oswego, N.Y. He was probably the first to propose the better treatment of insane persons, suggesting at a meeting of the Connecticut medical society in 1812, the es- tablishment of "a hospital for lunatics." He was also the fii-st to publish a school geography in the United States. He received the honorary degree of M.A. from Williams in 1801 and from
