Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-09
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Dana. The New York Sunday Sun gives the
 following sketch of his career
 Mir. Dana was born in Cambridge, Mass
 August l, 1915. He was the son of Richard
 Henry Dana, an American poet and essayist
 who was born in Cambridge in I7s7, and
 grandson of Chief Justice Richard Dana,
 who was born at Cambridge in 1899, and who
 was grandson of Richard Dana the propeni-
 tor of the family in America, who settled in
 Cambridge in 164O. The Mir Dana whose death is recorded was an author and law yer. He graduated at Harvard College in
 1887, but, being obliged by reason of an affection of the eyes to suspend his studies in
 1851, he made then sea voyage to Cali fornia, which is described in his 1.-Two Years Before the Mast" a minute and interesting chronicle of 8 sailors life, and work which to-day is widely popular on both sides of the Atlantic
 From 1887 to 1S4O Mir Dana was member the Harvard Law School, and in that time he assisted Prof. Charming in the University de- pertinent of rhetoric. Upon his admission to the bar in 1840 he became at once much employed in admiralty cases. ''The Sea- mans Friend," published by him in 1S4O, and republished in England as 'sThe Sea- mans Manual. B was manual of sea usapes and laws. From this time his practice in the law courts became general. In 1S45 he was engaged in the investigation of the presump- tion of murder or homicide in York's case, which led to a revision of the decisions and to new enactments on the subject in several States. He was also engaged in the contest as to the use of the Bible in the common schools of Maine, in the case of the Presby- terian Synod against the parish of Dr. Chan ming in 1851, in the case of the Price charity in 1864, and for the defense in the trials for fbd raf -H1 in the case of Anthony Burns in 1851
 He was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional convention in 1858, founder Of the Free Soil party, and delegate to the Buffalo convention of 184S, 8 popular speak CT in the Republican movement of 1856, and a Republican advocating the election of Lin coin in 1860 and 1864, and of Grant in 1868 and 1872.
 In 1859 and 1860 he made a tour around the world, revisiting California. From 1881 till 1866 he was United States attorney for Massachusetts. In this time, in conjunction with bfr. Evarts, he argued the prize cases for the government before the Supreme Court, laying down the principles that were established in decision of the court.
 A1r. Dana was counsel for the United States in the proceedings against Jefferson Davis for treason in 1S67-8. By request of the family of MT. Wheaton, he published an edi- ton of "Wheaton's Elements of Information al Law" in 1866. His note, 215, on the leg islative, judicial and diplomatic history of the neutrality laws of the United States and Great Britain was printed by the government, and translated into French for the use of the srbitrators at Geneva in 1872. In 1867 and 1868 he represented Cambridge in the Massa- chusetts Legislature, and was chairman of the committee on the Judiciary. He received the degre of ILL D. from Harvard College. In 1868 he was defeated by Benjamin F. But Ter in the Essex district for Congress by a large majority. He was a member of the Diocesan convention of the Episcopal Church for more than twenty years. He published ''To Cuba and Back" and biographical of his kinsmen, Professor Edward and Washington AlIston- He oc- contributed to the North ADaeTioaH and the law reviews. He was nominated as minister to England by General Grant. but rejected by the Senate by vote of 31 to IT.
 For three years MT. Dana had been travel ing in EuroDe