Dwight family.

Timothy Dwight (1694-1771) was an officer in the Massachusetts Militia. He built and commanded Fort Dummer, the first fortification on the English frontier, during the conflict between English settlers and Abenaki Indians known as Dummer's War. He later became a surveyor and served as Judge of Probate for Hampshire County, Massachusetts. His great-grandson, Theodore Dwight (1796-1866) was an educator and author of many books and articles on education, travel, history, linguistics and ethnography, as well as a friend of the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. Eleanor Augusta Ferris was the granddaughter of Theodore Dwight (1796-1866). She edited a periodical called "The Villager," published by the Bronxville Women's Club, of Bronxville, New York, where she lived with her sisters Mary and Isabel.