Orlando Williams Wight Explained

Orlando Williams Wight (February 19, 1824 – October 19, 1888)^[1] was an American physician and translator.

Biography

Wight was 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.

Selected publications

• 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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Barton Levi St. Armand. Emily Dickinson And Her Culture: The Soul's Society. 25 April 2012. 27 June 1986. CUP Archive. 978-0-521-33978-0. 328–.