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Orlando Williams Wight (1824–1888)
Wight, Orlando Williams. An American biographer, editor, and translator; born at Centreville, NY, Feb. 19, 1824; died at Detroit, MI, Oct. 19, 1888. A Universalist minister originally, he practiced medicine in Wisconsin where he was appointed State geologist and surgeon-general in 1874; health commissioner of Milwaukee, 1878–80; later he was health officer of Detroit. He wrote ‘Lives and Letters of Abélard and Héloïse’ (new ed. 1861); ‘Maxims of Public Health’ (1884); ‘People and Countries Visited’ (1888), travels; edited ‘Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton’ (1853); ‘Standard French Classics’ (12 vols., 1859); ‘The Household Library’ (18 vols., 1859); and translated Cousin’s ‘History of Modern Philosophy’ (1852, with F. W. Ricord); ‘Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good’ (1854); Martin’s ‘History of France’ (1863, with Mary L. Booth).