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{{Short description|American ornithologist}}
'''Jonathan Dwight''' ([[December 8]], [[1858]] - [[February 22]], [[1929]]) was an [[United States|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''' (
==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=Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight |author-link=Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight |title= The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass |volume= 2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghcfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA882 |pages= 882 |year=1874 |publisher=J. F. Trow & son, printers and bookbinders }}</ref> In 1861 the family moved to [[Madison, New Jersey]]. His family had a summer home in [[Tadoussac, Quebec]], and his first paper was published in 1879 on the birds observed there. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1880, and joined his father in railroad design.<ref name="auk"/>
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]].
==External link==▼
He worked for a while in a hospital and private practice, but over time devoted more time to the study of birds. Dwight was a member of the [[American Ornithologists' Union]] since its founding on September 26, 1883.
He was treasurer from 1903 to 1920, vice president until 1923, and president to 1926.
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; she died January 29, 1903.<ref>{{cite news |title= Obituary |date= February 1, 1903 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/02/01/101970539.pdf }}</ref>
[[Category:1858 births|Dwight, Jonathan]]▼
He married Ethel Gordon Wishart Adam in 1914.<ref name="auk">{{cite journal |title= In memoriam: Jonathan Dwight, M.D. |journal= [[The Auk]] |date= January 1930 |volume= 62 |issue=1 |pages= 1–6 |author= J. H. Fleming |url= http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v047n01/p0001-p0006.pdf |doi= 10.2307/4079957 |jstor= 4079957 }} Obituary read October 22, 1929.</ref> He died of cancer at his home at 43 West 70th Street in New York City on February 22, 1929.<ref>{{cite news |title= Jonathan Dwight, Bird Expert, Dies; Noted Ornithologist Loaned Collection of 60,000 Birds to American Museum. Headed Linnean Society; He Had Studied Engineering and Was a Graduate Physician-—Wrote Several Books |date= February 23, 1929 |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10E14F93E5A167A93C1AB1789D85F4D8285F9 }}</ref>
[[Category:1929 deaths|Dwight, Jonathan]]▼
[[Category:American ornithologists|Dwight, Jonathan]]▼
==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==
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[[Category:Deaths from cancer in New York (state)]]
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[[Category:Harvard University alumni]]
[[Category:People from Madison, New Jersey]]
[[Category:People from the Upper West Side]]
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