The Globe-republican., 1897-10-21

lieu new 1Ork. he was rs years OF
age.
Charles Anderson Dana was born August
g. 1919, in Hlnsdale. Cheshire county n H.,
from which town. when he was two years
old, his parents moved to Gaines, Orleans
county, N. Y, and afterward when he was
about years old, they removed to Guild
hall, VT At the age of IL he went to live
with his uncle in Buffalo N Y. He was ed
ucated in the public schools. and for two
years at Harvard college, leaving On ac-
count of failing eyesight. but eventually re-
ceivfng his degree of A. b as a rember of
the class of 1S4S. and also in 1861 the hon.
orary degree of A. M In 1912 he became
one of the Brook Farm association, at ROx-
bury, Mass, and his first newspaper work
was on the Harbinger, a paper connected
with that experiment He was an ASST slant
editor to Elizur Wright in 1874 on the Bos-
ton ChrOnotype.
In 1847 he went to New York as assist ant
to Horace Greeley on the New York Trib-
une. aiding in making the paper radical
anti-slave journal. and continuing with it
after voyage to Europe in 1s4S as one of
the proprietors and as MANAGING editor,
until April 1, 1862 when he resigned on a
sudden request from Mr.. Greeley. made be-
cause he was too strenuOusly forcing the
Tribune to demand the utmost possible
vigor in the prosecution of the war. He did
later, when he was supporting him in the
Sun as the Democratic nominee for the
presidency.
On June 16, 1862, he became attached to
the war department as one of the depart
ment commission to investigate ~laims at
Cairo. Ill and on March ~, 1863. as spe-
cial commissioner of the department to
report on the condition of the pay service
In the western army. On June L 1863, in
order that he might be subject 20 military
exchange if captured when visiting the
front of the army, he was appoi nted major
and assistant adiutant &c neral In Decem-
Der, 1868 he was nominated to the Senate
for that ONCE, but he lever formally ac-
cepted it. and the nomination, at his re-
quest, after he returned from VicksburR.
was withdrawn
On January 20, 1864, he was nominated
as assistant secretary of war for one year
from January 10, 1864, and took the oath Of
ONCE on January "a He was rennminated
January %. 1865. rendering the principal
part of his service for the war department
under the above commissions and as assist.
ant secretary by visiting the army head.
quarters OF Rosecrans, Sheridan, Sherman
and Grant advising confldentially with the
commanding ofacers. and corresponding
freely with President Lincoln and Score.
tary Stanton. He resigned as assistant Sec
rotary July 1. 1865. In 1855 he had begun
to plan, compile and edit, with George Rip.
ley. the New American Cyclopedia." The
original edition was completed in 1863 and
became the american Cyclopedia" be-
tween 1873 and 1876. In 1867 he started
the Chicago Republican. and on January
"a, 1868, he issued the first number under
his mana cement of the New York Sun and
became its editor and proprietor, making Il
In 1879 Democratic Newspaper.
Mr.. Dana aimed to make the Sun Ameri.
can in all its tendencies and aspirations.
he believed that the Western hemisphere
was reserved for Americans, that according
to the principles of the Monroe doctrine, as
the people of the United States are deter.
mined to interpret and enforce 1t, no new
possessions are on any pretext, either with
or without the consent of he local govern
ments. to be acquired by European powers.
and that eventually the existing control
diminish and disappear
His religious position he himself set forth
as follower II was brought up Calvinist,
then became Unitarian, then Sweden.
borgian. Now I don't belong to any church.
Many of my best friends are Catholics. I
believe in the religion of humanity. Ibelieve
In Divine Providence and divine destiny
for all things" His definition of a newspa-
per man was: 1.-The real newspaper man
Is the boy who sleeps on newspapers and
eats ink" "A gentleman at the door with
cowhide, sir, and wants 70 see the editor"
said the once boy once. "Send for Amos
Cummings and tell him to write him up"
was the chiefs answer, delivered with grim
humor.
Mr.. Dana married a Miss Mcdaniel, and
his three children are Mrs Underhiu, Mrs.
w. K Draper, and Paul