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{{Short description|American ornithologist}}
[[File:Jonathan Dwight by John Adams Whipple 1852.jpeg|thumb|right|250px|[[Daguerreotype]] of civil engineer Jonathan Dwight, [[Harvard College]] class of 1852, father of Jonathan Dwight, ornithologist]]
'''Jonathan Dwight V''' (1858–1929) was an
==Life==
[[File:Bookplate of Jonathan Dwight Jr. from "Every Bird" a guide to the identification of the birds of woodland, beach and ocean. With one hundred and twenty-four line illustrations (IA everybirdguideto00howe) (page 2 crop).jpg|thumb|Bookplate from 1896 bird book]]
Jonathan Dwight was born December 8, 1858, in [[New York City]]. His father was civil engineer Jonathan Dwight (1831–1910), grandfather Jonathan Dwight (1799–1856), great grandfather Jonathan Dwight (1772–1840), and great-great grandfather also named Jonathan Dwight (1743–1831), all part of the large [[New England Dwight family]]. His mother was Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck.<ref name="dwight2">{{cite book |author=
He enlisted in the New York National Guard in 1889. After serving in the ambulance corps, he developed an interest in medicine. In 1893 he entered the [[Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons]].
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The [[American Museum of Natural History]] provided a room for his collection in 1909.<ref name="auk"/>
He married Georgina Gertrude Rundle (daughter of Richard Plaskett Rundle) in 1901
He
==Legacy==
After Dwight's death, [[Fiduciary Trust Company]] founder Carll Tucker purchased Dwight's collection of ornithology books as a gift for his wife [[Marcia Brady Tucker]], daughter of [[Anthony N. Brady]], a founder of [[Union Carbide]].<ref name=Martinet>{{cite web |title= François Nicolas Martinet. Ornithologie |author= Kathryn E. Zaharek and Leslie K. Overstreet |publisher= [[Smithsonian Libraries]] |url= http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/nhrarebooks/martinet/martinet-introduction.htm |accessdate=September 6, 2017}}</ref> Marcia Brady Tucker, two-time director of the [[National Audubon Society|National Association of Audubon Societies]], donated the collection to the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in 1970.<ref name=Martinet/>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
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