Orlando Williams Wight
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Orlando Williams Wight (1824-1888) was an American physician and translator, born in Centreville, N. Y. He was educated at the Rochestern College Institute, was ordained as a Universalist clergyman and accepted a call to Newark, N. J. (1850). Three years later he left the church to engage in literary work. In 1865 he graduated in medicine at the Long Island College Hospital; in 1874 was appointed State geologist and Surgeon General of Wisconsin, and afterward served as health commissioner of Milwaukee (1878-80) and of Detroit. His publications include:
- History of Modern Philosophy (translated with F. W. Ricord from the French of Victor Cousin, 1852)
- Life of Abélard and Héloise (1853 and 1861)
- Standard French Classics (fourteen volumes, 1858-60)
- Pascal's Thoughts (1859)
- The Household Library (18 volumes, 1859 et seq.)
- six volumes of translations from Balzac (1860)
- Henry Martin's History of France (with Mary L. Booth, 1863)
- A Winding Journey Around the World (1888)
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
