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The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Vol. XXXIII, 1902
Pub. by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
226 West 58th Street, New York

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         COLONEL JAMES FOWLER DWIGHT, the last of the name in
       Berkshire County, was a son of COLONEL HENRY WILLIAMS
       DWIGHT and FRANCES FOWLER, a grandson of HENRY WILLIAMS
       DWIGHT and ABIGAIL WELLES, and a great-grandson of 
       GENERAL JOSEPH DWIGHT, and his second wife, ABIGAIL
       WILLIAMS SERGEANT. The father was a graduate and trustee
       of Williams College; a prominent lawyer of the Berkshire
       Bar; member of the Legislature for two terms; member of
       Congress five successive terms; and an aid-de-camp, with
       the rank of colonel, on the staff of MAJOR-GENERAL WHITON,
       in the War of 1812. The grandfather was treasurer of
       Berkshire County for many years; clerk of the County Court,
       and a soldier in the Revolution.
         COLONEL JAMES F. DWIGHT was born Jan. 30, 1830, in the
       home of his maternal grandfather, the Honorable SAMUEL
       FOWLER, at Westfield. He graduated from Williams College
       in 1849, and after a few years travel abroad, studied
       law, and was admitted to the New York Bar. He attained
       prominence, and was appointed Assistant United States
       District Attorney. At the beginning of the Civil War he
       enlisted in the Fremont Hussars, a St. Louis cavalry
       regiment, as second-lieutenant, and in 1863 he was ap-
       pointed Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of
       Missouri, under General SAMUEL P. CURTIS of St. Louis,
       with power over Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas. After
       four years of cavalry service he was mustered out by
       General PHILP H. SHERIDAN, at New Orleans, with the
       title of colonel. Then he returned to active law practice
       in New York, and was soon afterward appointed Register of
       Bankruptcy for the Southern District of New York, which
       office he held for several years. During his later years
       he devoted his time to personal cultivation, and native
       and foreign travel, making his home at the old DWIGHT
       homestead at Stockbridge, and in New York. COLONEL DWIGHT
       was a man of fine presence, courteous manners, scholarly
       attainments, and his last will showed to a marked degree
       his strong characteristics and true nature. In the study
       of American documents, through the successive periods, I
       have never seen a will that was more admirable or origi-
       nal. The only son, HENRY WILLIAMS DWIGHT, one of the most
       agreeable young men in the region, passed away a few years
       ago, so that when COL. DWIGHT died Sept. 22, 1899, the
       Berkshire branch of this honorable and honored family,
       became extinct in the male line at Stockbridge. The only
       daughter was recently married to a subject of KING EDWARD
       the Seventh. 
       
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