Theodore W. Dwight Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	THEODORE W. DWIGHT, one of the representative business men of the city 
of Sioux Falls, and an ex-member of the state legislature, was born in 
the town of Oregon, Dane county, Wisconsin, on the 12th of March, 1865, 
being a son of E. W. and Elizabeth (Foote) Dwight, both of whom were 
born in the state of New York, the respective families having been long 
and prominently identified with the annals of American history. In the 
agnatic line the subject of this sketch is a direct descendant of Rev. 
Jonathan Edwards, a distinguished historical figure in New England, and 
also of Timothy Dwight, D. D., one of the early presidents of Yale 
College. The subject still lives at Oregon, Wisconsin.

	Theodore W. Dwight attended the public schools of Red Wing, 
Minnesota, until he had completed the course in the high school, being 
graduated as a member of the class of 1885. At the age of twenty years 
he became a clerk in a general store at Brooklyn, Wisconsin, where he 
remained until 1888, when he came to South Dakota and established 
himself in the general merchandise business at Bridgewater, McCook 
county, where he continued to reside until 1901, having built up a 
prosperous business in the intervening years. He then disposed of his 
interests there and took up his residence in Sioux Falls, where he 
became identified with the wholesale confectionery business, as 
secretary and treasurer of the Anthony-Dwight Company, which is 
incorporated under the laws of the state and which controls an 
excellent and constantly expanding trade throughout the territory 
normally tributary to Sioux Falls as a wholesale and jobbing center. 
Mr. Dwight is also the owner of two general stores, one at Canastota 
and the other at Emery, and these are conducted under his supervision. 
He is also treasurer of the Retail Merchants' Fire Insurance Company, 
of South Dakota, having held this office since its organization. In 
politics he gives a staunch allegiance to the Republican party, as the 
candidate on whose ticket he was elected to represent his district in 
the state legislature in 1899, proving a valuable working member of the 
legislative body. He is affiliated with Unity Lodge, Free and Accepted 
Masons, and Salem Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Salem, South Dakota, 
and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, of which 
Mrs. Dwight likewise is a member.

	On the 20th of August, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
Dwight to Miss Jennie M. Brink, daughter of L. S. and C. R. Brink, of 
Red Wing, Minnesota, and they have one daughter, Helen, who was born on 
the 6th of February, 1895, and one son, born November 24, 1899.