Orlando Williams Wight (February 19, 1824 – October 19, 1888) was an American physician and translator.

Biography

Wight was born in Centreville, N. Y. He was educated at the Rochestern College Institute, was ordained as a Universalist

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man and accepted a call to

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; in 1874 was appointed State

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and Surgeon General of Wisconsin, and afterward served as health commissioner of

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(1878–1880) and of

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Selected publications

*''History of Modern Philosophy'' (translated with F. W. Ricord from the French of

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, 1852) *''Life of Abélard and Héloise'' (1853 and 1861) *''Standard French Classics'' (fourteen volumes, 1858–1860) *''

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's Thoughts'' (1859) *''The Household Library'' (18 volumes, 1859 et seq.) *six volumes of translations from Balzac (1860) * Henry Martin's ''History of France'' (with Mary L. Booth, 1863) *''A Winding Journey Around the World'' (1888)

References

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