Hutchinson gazette., 1897-10-21

at his home on Saturday morning, and
were warned to remain there. They
were at the bedside when death came.
The cause of Mr.. Dana's death was
cirrhosis of the liver. On June 8 he
was at his Office apparently strong
and healthy. The next day he was
taken i'll, and he never afterward Wis
tied New York. He was 7S years of
age.
Charles Anderson Dana was born August
8, 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 ~ 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-
ceiving his degree of A B as a member of
the class of 1s49, and also in 1861 the hon
orary degree of A. NJ In 1S42 he became
one of the Brook Farm association, at Rox-
bury, Mass, and his first newspaper work
was on the Harbinger, paper connected
with that experiment He was an assistant
editor to Elizur Wright in 1874 on the Bos-
ton ChrOnotype
In 1s47 he went to New York as assistant
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 1949, as one of
the proprietors and as MANAGING editor,
until April l., 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 prose cution of the war. He did
not again meet Mr.. Greeley until ten years
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 claims at
Cairo, Ill, and on March ~, 1868, as spe-
cial commissioner of the department to
report on the condition of the pay service
In the western army. On June /. 1868, in
order that he might be subject 20 military
exchange If captured when visiting the
front of the army, he was appol nted major
and assistant adiutant general In Decem-
ber, 1868, he was nominated to the Senate
for that once, but he lever formally ac-
cepted II, and the nomination, at his re-
quest after he returned from Vicksburg,
was withdrawn.
On January 20, 1864, he was nominated
as assistant secretary of war for one year
from January 49, 1864, and took the oath of
ONCE on January %. He was rennminated
January 29, 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 he sd-
quarters of Rosecrans, Sheridan, Sherman
and Grant advising confdentially with the
commanding officers, and corresponding
freely with President Lincoln and Secre-
tary Stanton. He resigne as assistant sec
retary 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 1853, and
became the American Cyclopedla" be-
tween 1878 and 1875. In 1867 he started
the Chicago Republican, and on January
his management of the New York Sun and
became its editor and proprietor, making II
In 1872 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 It, 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
by such powers of American territory is to
diminish and disappear
His religious position he himself set forth
as follower II was brought up Calvinist
then became Unitarian, then a Sweden.
borgian. Now don't belong to any church
Many of my best friends are Catholics.
believe in the religion of humanity. IbelievI
in Divine Providence and divine destiny
for all thinnsn His drhnltion of a neWspa-
per man was: "The real newspaper mar
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 Amo!
Cummings and tell him to write him up,
was the chiefs answer, delivered with grin
humor.
Mr.. Dana married Miss MacDaniel, and
, his three children arc Mrs. Underhill, Mrs
W. X. Draper, and Paul.