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Anthony, of Hamilton, 1850; Chicago lawyer; city 

 attorney; a member of the Illinois Constitutional 

 Convention in 1862 and again in 1870; founder of 

 the Law Institute, Chicago, and for several years 

 the president. Also Edward Woolsey Dwight, who 

 was a leading citizen and legislator of Wisconsin. 



It is impracticable to give the record of many of 

 the distinguished members of such a family, but a 

 brief notice of a few will give some idea of the 

 standard of the family. 



Benj. Woodbridge Dwight, Ph.D., b. 1816, g. 

 Hamilton 1835, Yale Theological Seminary, professor 

 in Hamilton ; founded Central Presbyterian church, 

 Joliet, 111.; established "Dwight's High School," 

 Brooklyn; editor-in-chief of "The Interior" of Chi- 

 cago, which he owned and edited; contributor to 

 many magazines ; author of several scholarly works ; 

 had the first preparatory school which placed Ger- 

 man on a level with Greek in importance, and 

 founded a large preparatory boarding school at 

 Clinton, N. Y. He was a man of rare ability, char- 

 acter and success. 



Prof. Theodore William Dwight, LL.D., b. 1822, 

 g. Hamilton 1840, g. Yale Law S. ; professor Hamil- 

 ton College sixteen years; dean of Columbia Col- 

 lege Law S. from 1858 to 1892. James Brice of 

 England placed him at the head of legal learning 

 in the United States and said: "It would be worth 

 an English student's while to cross the Atlantic to 

 attend his course." Another eminent English law- 

 yer, A. V. Dicey, in "Legal Education" wrote of 



