George S. Dwight

Short Name: George S. Dwight
Full Name: Dwight, George S.

Dwight, George Spring, an American Presbyterian layman, directly descended from President Dwight, of Yale, b. at New York, Dec. 14, 1835, and after a business career died at Summit, N.J., August 28, 1886. His hymn, "0 Jesus, Man of Sorrows," appeared in Laudes Domini for the Sunday School, 1888, and again in New Laudes Domini, 1892. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)


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