Orlando Williams Wight

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Orlando Williams Wight (February 19, 1824 – October 19, 1888)^[1] 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, New Jersey (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 (1878–1880) 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, 1858–1860)
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)

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

↑ Barton Levi St. Armand (27 June 1986). Emily Dickinson And Her Culture: The Soul's Society. CUP Archive. pp. 328–. ISBN 978-0-521-33978-0. Retrieved 25 April 2012.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 100248110 LCCN: no89001867 ISNI: 0000 0001 0859 5545

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Name	Wight, Orlando Williams
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Short description	American physician
Date of birth	February 19, 1824
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Date of death	October 19, 1888
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