Jonathan Dwight

Jonathan Dwight V (1858 to 1929) was an American ornithologist, born in New York City into the large New England Dwight family. His first paper, published in 1879, was on the birds observed at his family's summer home in Tadoussac, Quebec. He graduated from Harvard University in 1880 and joined his father in railroad design, then after serving in the ambulance corps developed an interest in medicine and in 1893 entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Over time he devoted more of his time to the study of birds. He was a member of the American Ornithologists' Union from its founding in 1883, serving as treasurer from 1903 to 1920, vice president until 1923 and president to 1926, and in 1909 the American Museum of Natural History provided a room for his collection.