MARY EDWARDS DWIGHT FAMILY 77 



When he died, from a cancer at sixty-five, the chil- 

 dren insisted that the estate should be for the mother 

 during her lifetime, and when she died there was 

 found to be $26,000 although his salary had always 

 been ridiculously small. 



The eight children were all boys, and all but one 

 grew to manhood. Timothy was a hardware mer- 

 chant in New Haven and New York for more than 

 forty years. He endowed the "Dwight Professor- 

 ship of Didactic Theology in Yale," which was named 

 for him. There were nine children, grandchildren 

 of President Dwight by his eldest son. Of these the 

 eldest, also Timothy, was the leading paper manufact- 

 urer in the trust mill headquarters at Chicago, and 

 his six children were enterprising and successful 

 business men in Illinois and Wisconsin. John Wil- 

 liam Dwight was one of the leading manufacturers 

 of chemicals in Connecticut. Edward Strong 

 Dwight, of Yale, 1838, and of Theological Seminary, 

 Yale, was for many years a trustee of Amherst and 

 a prominent clergyman. J. H. Lyman, M. D., and 

 Edward Huntington Lyman, M. D., were names that 

 added luster to the family of President Dwight. 

 Benjamin Woolsey Dwight, M. D., another son of 

 the President of Yale, was a graduate of Yale and 

 treasurer of Hamilton college for nineteen years. 

 Among his descendants are Richard Smith Dewey, 

 M. D., of Ann Arbor, in charge of Brooklyn City 

 Hospital ; charge of military hospital at Hesse Cas- 

 sel in Franco-Prussian war ; assistant superintendent 

 Illinois State Insane hospital at Elgin. Also Elliott 



