Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-10-22

desire that he should once more pass among
his magnificent collections and enjoy them
10 the fullest. Hi- was granted. Supported
bv his nurses. and accompanied by his chill
dren aud rhidreu-in-law. he was taken
through the great rooms he had loved so
well and had lahorrd with SO much
devotion to make beautiful The eNer-
tion proved too much however.
The disease. apparently ready to srize
upon any sudden weakening Of the heart
overrame his fanced strength, and he faint
ed. From that time on until he passed
away he was conscious only at short inter
walls. SUNDAY morning his heart and pulse
became so weak that death was expected
mOmentarily. and his family, including Mrs.
Dana, Mr.. Paul Dana, Mrs. Paul
Dana. Mrs. Underhll, Mrs. Brannau and
Mrs. Draper never left him. \ few
moments before he breathed his last he
opened his eyes and seemed to recognize his
children, though he was SO weak that he
could not articulate above the most indistinct
whisper. His death was nearly painless,
and with his children kneeling beside him
he passed away.
Charles 4. Dana was born in Hinsdale, n
H.. Aug. 10, 1919, and descended from an old
and distinguished family. His paternal an
cestor was Richard Dana, who came from
England to Cambridge, Mass. in l640 Mr..
Dana's mother was Ann Denison, whose
grandfather was Seth Paine. a member Of
the Connecticut State convention which rat
flied the federal constitution in l7SS. Her
uncle was Elijah Paine United States sera-
tor from Vermont from 1895 to 1901. The first
who came to America returned for a few
years and fought at Naseby with Cromwell.
In his hoyhOod, the failure of his father in
business placed him in straitened cir
cumstances. and later, the failure of
OiS nDplp whose StpFp he WnrEpI Rnf-
falo, until he was at the age of IS, left him
practically without financial resources
During his residence with his uncle how
ever, his strong craving for books and his
intensely StudiOus nature. resulted in severe
study. and when he left his relative he was
fully prepared to enter Harvard college,
which he did in 1889 at the age of 20. In
college his success was pronounced from the
very first. He showed particular proficiency
In Greek Latin and German, with the
strongest prediction for the classics.
His eyesight failed him before the
completion of his collegiate course
and he was compelled to leave with
out graduating. The trustees, however, sub
seQuently conferred the degree upon him.
and his name is among the graduates of this
great institution of learning. The peculiar
line of study that young Dana marked
out for himself made him familiar with
lllb EOllluullC Slut VI IlS SOclilSlu. III lS4Z
he became member of the Brook Farm
Community at RoXbury, Mass, being asso-
ciated with George and Sophia Ripley,
! George William Curtis, Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, Theodore Parker, William H. Chan
ming, John s. Dwight, Margaret Fuller and
| other philosophers more or less concerned
| in the remarkable attempt to realize a high
ideal of social and intellectual life. He here
had charge of the fruit and garden depart
ment of the farm, and his close association
| with this class of work mstilled in him such
a strong love for trees and flowers that, to the
end of his life. his highest delight was in the
adOrnment of the grounds of his summer resi-
| dence with choice trees and flowers and in
the study of the fora and fauna of any par
ticular locality in which he found himself
When the Brook Farm Community dissolved
in ls4s he obtained employment in the edi-
torial rooms of Elzur Wrights Boston
Chronotype, at salary of So per week. A
| year later he was called to New York to
| take the place of George Foster, as city
editor of the Tribune, at a salary of Sl0 per
week. 1t was on this small stipend that he
married Miss Eunice Mcdaniel, to whose
loving devotion and encouragement he owes
very much of his grand success. At the
outbreak OF the French revolution he went
! to Europe as special correspondent foI
several American newspapers, and on the
earnings thus acquired managed to see most
of the continent Of Europe. Upon his return
he was appointed to the position Of principal
assistant to Mr.. Horace Greeley Of the
| Tribune, at $2O per week, which was sub