er.
A.S. Bell, Pittsburg lawyer.
George Hoadley, born in 1781; graduated from Yale; mayor New Haven;
eight times mayor of Cleveland.
W.W. Hoadley, born in 1814; Cincinnati banker.
Dr. T.F. Pomeroy, Detroit.
General J.H. Bates, U.S.A.; Ohio state senate.
Governor George Hoadley, born in 1826; graduated from Western Reserve
College; supreme court judge; president Democratic convention that
nominated General Hancock for the presidency.
Major W.W. Winthrop of the Civil war; graduated from Tale.
Major W.T. Johnson, graduated from Yale; killed at battle of Big Bethel.
Theodore Weston, graduated from Yale; civil engineer of Croton water
works.
J.M. Woolsey, born in 1796; graduated from Yale; capitalist, Cleveland.
Sarah C. Woolsey is "Susan Coolidge."
Mrs. Daniel C. Grilman, wife of the president of Johns Hopkins
University, and formerly president of University of California.
Samuel Carmalt, wealthy land owner in Pennsylvania.
Dr. W.W. Woolsey, born in 1831; graduated from Yale; physician, Dubuque,
Ia.
T.B. Woolsey, flour merchant, New York.
Samuel W. Johnson, graduated from Princeton and Harvard law school; New
York lawyer.
Woolsey Johnson, M.D., graduated from Princeton and New York Medical
College; physician, New York.
Theodore S. Woolsey, graduated from Yale; professor in Yale.
Charles F. Johnson, graduated from Yale; professor United States Naval
Academy, Annapolis.
W.W. Johnson, graduated from Yale; professor Kenyon College.
J.H. Rathburn, lawyer, Utica.
J.O. Pease, merchant, Philadelphia.
A.S. Dwight, lieutenant U.S.A.; killed at Petersburg.
George P.B. Dwight, New York custom house.
Henry E. Dwight, born in 1813; Southern planter.
Theodore Woolsey Porter, b. 1799, g. Yale 1819, eminent teacher;
principal of Washington Institute, New York City.
Timothy Dwight Porter, M.D., b. 1797, g. Yale 1816, was in the New York
senate and a successful practitioner.
Imperfectly as these names represent the achievements of the descendants
of Mary Edwards Dwight they do hint strongly at the vigor, character and
scholarship for which the family of Jonathan Edwards stands in American
life.
There is another large family of Dwights, direct descendants of Jonathan
Edwards, through his granddaughter, Rhoda Edwards, but these are not, of
course, included in this list of Mary's descendants. Many of these are
eminent men, and reference is here made to their omission, lest some o
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