Strangers – Today

William Theodore Dwight, June 15, 1795 — October 22, 1865

William Theodore Dwight was an American minister and lawyer. He was the son of Timothy Dwight, the President of Yale College. He graduated from Yale and acted as a tutor there before studying law and being admitted to the bar in Philadelphia. Dwight later turned his attention to theology, and was ordained and began preaching at the Third Congregational Church in Portland, Maine in 1832. He received a Doctorate of Divinity from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1846. Dwight visited the Athenaeum multiple times over the years.

Portrait courtesy of Maine Memory Network — Source — Source

Thos Dakins

Thos [likely Thomas] Dakins was a visitor from Trinidad.