Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-23

on June he was az the office Of The sun.
apparently strong and hearty. The next
day be was taken iI. aud Se - not since
visited New York Until tnrer -Sesls agc.
however. he kept in touch with his paper
and directed il rolcy from his sick bed.
Cirrhoss OF the liver was the Immediate
cause Of hi- death.
on SATURDAY Dr. Hall. one % his medical
attendants announced that Mr.. ID ana could
live only few hours. and the members OF
hts family were notified. They fastened %
his bedside and all were with him az the
end. lie knew that he was dying and bade
them goodbye. He was conscious and
calm 70 the last. There were present his
Wife his son Paul Dana. his daughters.
Mrs. w. Il. Draper Mrs. J W. Brennan. and
Mrs.. William Underhill With their families.
and +. o. mcdaniel.
Charles Anderson Dana was born in the
manufacturing town Of Hinsdale. y. H.. on
August :. 1919. He had two winters In the
county schools which existed AT that time.
and az the age 90 fourteen was sent by hts
parents 20 Buffalo, whore hc became a clerk
in his uncle's dry goods store. He 70
maiuei there six years. and IL - said OF him
that he was a quiet and studi0us youth who
loved nature and books and, while ne was
a gOOt salesman he was prone 10 spend
too much time in the only book store IN
town looking over volumes that he had not
fishing and made long trips into the woods.
He mastered the Latin grammar while
clerSing IN the store. and when eighteen
years Old resolved 70 have an education.
With his own savings and with some help
from relatives he entered Harvard az the
age Of twenty. His eyesisht having be-
come impaired. he was obliged 10 relinqulsh
the college course az the end OF the second
year.
One year later he became member of
the Brook Farm community. az Roxhury,
Mass. FOr three years he remained az the
experimental station, which was started by
! devOtees OF tranScendentai philosophy
While there he was associated with william
Henry Charming. Ralph Waldo Emerson
/ George William Curtis. Nathaniel Haw-
thOrne. Theodore Parker. 4. Bronson Ol
colt and'Others. During his stay AT brooi
Farm he took his first lesson in journalism
he then wentto Boston and assumed edi
tOrial charge OF the ChrOnotyPe. In 1871
he came 70 New York as a reporter on tn
Tribune at 80 week He became cit,
editor. and in lS4S spent eight months II
Europe a. a correspondent. In the AZ
sresSive ght which the Tribune. under tn
management OF Horace Greeley, wage
against slavery, Mr. Dana found an ampl
field for work and one which und0ubtedl
contributed TO making him one OF the mos
fOrceful writers in newspaper life-
Mr. Dana resigned from the Tribune o
: April l. 1862 and Secretary OF War StantO
employed him TO examine the accounts q
the Quartermaster's Department at Cair,
Soon afterward ne was made Assistant See
retary OF Wa- He was really a cOnfidentil
reporter OF the dOings at the front for th
department.. The war over be was see
next in the editorial rooms OF the Chicag
Republican an ill-timed sheet that had Z
money behind IL.
He returned to New York City In 1868 al
in 1868 interested some friends in the pa
. chase OF The Sun. TIE Beach family la
owned IL for more than thirty years. but q
"A financial inducement offered was great. ar
In 1865 Dana moved into The Sun Office
= its editor
r But amid all the daily exertions OF \
= position he found time TO cdfs the Americi
Encyclopedia In conjunction with Geors
Ripley. TO collect volume or poems an
master many languages.
People always resent X when n do