Chauncey Charles Dwight

from The New York Times, April 9, 1902, p. 9:

    Ex-Justice Charles C. Dwight.
  AUBURN, N.Y., April 8.--Charles C.
Dwight, Justice of the Supreme Court, re-
tired, died this morning, aged seventy-two.
He had been on the bench over thirty
years, and at one time sat in the Court of
Appeals, and was also Presiding Justice
of the General Term, Fifth Department.
He was Colonel of a regiment in the civil
war.
  After having served for two years as
District Attorney for Cayuga County, Mr.
Dwight was appointed to the Supreme
Court bench, vice Justice Wells, who died
in 1868, and was re-elected at the end of
his first term of service, retiring a short
time ago. In November of 1887 he became
a member of the General Term of the
Fifth Department, and as Presiding Jus-
tice performed most of the work of the
court. During his occupancy of the bench
he was noted for opinions shortly and
tersely expressed, and for the quickness
with which he reached and decided the
main issue involved on broad legal princi-
ples.