Orlando Williams Wight

Who was Orlando Williams Wight?

Orlando Williams Wight was an American physician and translator, born in Centreville, N. Y. He was educated at the Rochestern College Institute, was ordained as a Universalist clergyman and accepted a call to Newark, New Jersey. Three years later he left the church to engage in literary work. In 1865 he graduated in medicine at the Long Island College Hospital; in 1874 was appointed State geologist and Surgeon General of Wisconsin, and afterward served as health commissioner of Milwaukee and of Detroit. His publications include:

⁕History of Modern Philosophy

⁕Life of Abélard and Héloise

⁕Standard French Classics

⁕Pascal's Thoughts

⁕The Household Library

⁕six volumes of translations from Balzac

⁕Henry Martin's History of France

⁕A Winding Journey Around the World