Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . DWIGHT, Josiah Harvard in Springfield, Mass., 1767 ; graduated Harvard,1786; merchant in Stockbridge and Northampton,Mass.; Clerk of the Court of Hampshire Co., Mass.;State Treasurer, 1808-10; died 1821. JOSIAH DWIGHT, Merchant, Treasurer ofMassachusetts, was born in Springfield, Mas-sachusetts, Septeinber 17, 1767, the son of ColonelJosiah and Elizabeth (Buckminster) Dwight, and UNIVERSITIES AND THE
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . DWIGHT, Josiah Harvard in Springfield, Mass., 1767 ; graduated Harvard,1786; merchant in Stockbridge and Northampton,Mass.; Clerk of the Court of Hampshire Co., Mass.;State Treasurer, 1808-10; died 1821. JOSIAH DWIGHT, Merchant, Treasurer ofMassachusetts, was born in Springfield, Mas-sachusetts, Septeinber 17, 1767, the son of ColonelJosiah and Elizabeth (Buckminster) Dwight, and UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 439 lineal descendant of John Dwight of Dedham, Mas-sachusetts. He was graduated at Harvard in 1786,and estabhshed himself as a merchant in Stock-bridge, Massachusetts, later becoming associated inbusiness at Northampton, with his brother-in-law,Colonel William T. Edwards, a grandson of Jona-than Edwards. For some years he was Clerk ofthe Court of Hampshire county, Massachusetts,then a very large county, and the office one ofmuch value and responsibility. Afterwards, 1808-1810, he was State Treasurer of Massachusetts,residing during this time in Boston. This JOSIAH DWIGHT as also that of Clerk of the Court, was conferredupon him without his own previous solicitation oreven his knowledge. He married for his first wife,May 21, 1789, Caroline Williams, who died Decem-ber 26, 1796, leaving two children. His secondwife, whom he married March i, 1798, was RhodaEdwards, the granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards,who bore him fifteen children. It is said of theHon. Josiah Dwight that he was very good look-ing, very religious and every inch a man. Hisbusiness habits were of the most thorough kind, andhe had, like many of the Dwight family, decidedmilitary and administrative talents. He was pro-verbially upright, and although for a long timehopefully a Christian, he did not join the churchuntil in his later years. He died March 8, 1821. KILBOURNE, James Harvard
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