Honolulu County HI Archives Obituaries.....Dwight, Charles B. January 12, 1949
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Unknown newspaper, January 12, 1949
SUDDEN HEART ATTACK TAKES CHARLES B. DWIGHT, ATTORNEY

  A sudden heart attack claimed the life early today of Charles B. Dwight, 53, 
3002 Kalakaua Ave.
  Mr. Dwight, a Honolulu attorney and member of a prominent kamaaina family, 
was stricken by a heart attack at 1:30 a.m. in his home.
  He had suffered slight spells of illness for the past two or three years.
  A private family service will be held in the home at 8 a.m. today with 
cremation to follow at the Williams mortuary.
  Burial will be in the Nuuanu cemetery with a graveside service at 4:30 p.m. 
Thursday. The Rev. Henry P. Judd will officiate.
  Members of the family ask that flowers be omitted and request that 
donations, if made, be sent to Lunalilo home, as a memorial.
  Mr. Dwight is survived by his widow, Mrs. Olive Henry Dwight, and a 22 year 
old son, Charles Bishop Dwight III, a senior student at Yale university, New 
Haven, Conn.
  In addition, there are two brothers and two sisters, Joseph L. Dwight, James 
A. Dwight, Mrs. C. W. Spitz and Mrs. Alfred K. Smythe, all of Honolulu.
BORN IN HONOLULU
  Mr. Dwight was born in Honolulu April 26, 1895, the son of Charles B. and 
Ellen Norton Dwight.
  He graduated from McKinley high school in 1914, later took his law degree at 
Georgetown university, Washington, D.C., in 1922. He was married in 1922 to 
Miss Olive Henry of Easton, Md.
  While attending Georgetown university law school, he served at Washington as 
private secretary to the late Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, former delegate 
to congress. He also served in the same capacity to Delegate Harry Baldwin of 
Maui.
RESIGNED IN 1927
  Mr. Dwight became a deputy attorney general on April 1, 1923, and held the 
position continuously until August 2, 1927, when he handed in his resignation 
to Attorney General William B. Lymer.
  On September 1 of that year Mr. Dwight opened offices for the private 
practice of law. At the time of his death he had a law office in the Damon 
building.
  He was active in legal circles, as a Republican, in the Honolulu Chamber of 
Commerce, the Hawaiian Civic association and several other organizations.
COURTS CLOSE
  The territorial supreme court and circuit courts were closed today in 
respect to Mr. Dwight’s memory.
  District court in the police station also was adjourned.
  Senior Judge Harry Steiner adjourned the courts, including two traffic 
courts in the old post office building, at 9:30 a.m.
  The cases pending on today’s calendar were fitted into future calendars 
before the courts were adjourned.


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