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Henry Otis Dwight was born on June 3, 1843 in Constantinople, Turkey. He was the son of Harrison G. Otis Dwight and Mary Lane, his second wife.
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Henry Otis Dwight was born on June 3, 1843 in Constantinople, Turkey. He was the son of Harrison G. Otis Dwight and Mary Lane, his second wife.
Dwight's entire early education, including the equivalent of high school training, was obtained in Constantinople, for the most part in his own home. When he was ready for college, he came to America and entered Ohio Wesleyan University. He was there only a year, for in September 1861 he enlisted as a private in the 20th Ohio Infantry.
Dwight was promoted successively sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and brevetted captain. At the close of the war he declined an appointment in the regular army. He served as aide on the staff of Maj. -Gen. M. F. Force of the 16t Division, XVII Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, and was mustered out in July 1865. During 1866-67 he was treasurer of the Northampton, Massachusetts, Street Railway Company. He had “dabbled in engineering” while in the army, and assisted in laying out the city’s railway system.
He was “Secular Agent” until 1874, and from 1875 to 1899 was general editor of the Turkish publications of the mission. In the latter capacity he performed the great scholarly work of his life, the editing of the Turkish and English Lexicon (1890) of Sir James Redhousc.
From 1875 to 1892 he acted as special correspondent of the New York Tribune, supplying his paper with valuable news of events from the outset of the reign of Abdul Hamid II. Some of his letters to the Tribune formed the basis of a volume, Turkish Life in War Time, published in 1881.
He also contributed articles on Turkey to magazines in the United States, often writing under an assumed name in order to avoid difficulties with the Turkish censorship. Throughout this period, his intimate understanding of affairs in Turkey made his letters to the United States minister on behalf of the mission useful to the State Department in shaping its policy in the Near East. In 1893 he published Treaty Rights of American Missionaries in Turkey. At one time he was mentioned for the post of United States minister at Constantinople, but he felt that he could be of greater use in a humbler but more permanent position.
In 1899 he gave up his editorial connection with the mission and returned to America. He was editor, in 1900, of the Report of the Ecumenical Missionary Conference held that year in New York City. In 1901 he resigned from the mission altogether, continuing the general editorial work upon which he had been engaged and devoting his time more fully to authorship. He published Constantinople and its Problems (1901); was editor in chief of the Encyclopcedia of Missions in 1904; was the author of the Blue Book of Missions, issued in 1905 and 1907, and of A Muslim Sir Galahad (1913).
From March 1904 he acted as secretary of the Bureau of Missions, in New York City, and from January 1907, as recording secretary of the American Bible Society. As historian of this Society he published in 1916 their Centennial History. Although he never held a pastorate, while in America on a furlough in 1880 he was ordained to the ministry by the Council of the Lamoille County (Vermont) Congregational Association.
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Dwight was married four times. His first wife, Mary Bliss, died at Constantinople on November 15, 1872, at the age of twenty-eight. On April 18, 1874, he married Ardelle Maria Griswold, of the Turkey Mission, who had gone out to Caesarea in 1869. She died at Constantinople on December 28, 1884, in her thirty-seventh year. In 1887 he married Belle S. Bliss, who died in 1894, in her thirty- sixth year. On December 26, 1900, he married Mrs. Frances Warner Mulford of Roselle, New Jersey.
