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Winthrop E. Dwight

Lawyer

Centurion, 1916–1944

Full Name Winthrop Edwards Dwight

Born 23 December 1872 in New Haven, Connecticut

Died 3 December 1944 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried New Germantown Cemetery, Oldwick, New Jersey

Proposed by Charles Hickox and John Munro Woolsey

Elected 4 November 1916 at age forty-three

Century Memorial

Winthrop Edwards Dwight. [Born] 1872. Lawyer. Descendant of two Timothy Dwights, each a president of Yale; student at Balliol College, Oxford, after graduating from Yale; specialist in estate practice at the New York Bar for over forty years.

Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945