The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-19
DEATH OE A
Great editor.
Charles A. Dana, Of the Sun,
Passed Away Sunday.
HAD BEEN ILL FOUR MONTHS.
INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER
THE FATAL DISEASE = MR..
DANA WORKED IN A STORE
WHEN A BOY AND WAS AFTER
WARDS ASSISTANT SECRETARY
OF WAR gDURING THE CIVIL
STRlFE--HIS NEWSPAPER Ca
REER.


New York, Oct. 1S.-Charles A. Dana,
editor of the New York Sun, died Mt his
home, in Glencove, Long Island, III 1:2O
O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Dana's death had been expected for
several hours, and his family and physi-
CLANS were at his bedside when the end
came. His condition had been such for
several months that the members of his
family had kept themselves in constant
readiness to go to his bedside at any mo-
meut. On Saturday morning he had :
relapse, ami was appaI ent that recovery
was impossible. Several times however,
he rallied, but toward night he began to
sink. During the night there were fee
BILE rallies, but they did mot last long.
In the morning it WAS seen that the end
was buta few hours off, and his attend
ants remained almost constantly at his
bedside. The end came quietly.
Tine extreme heat of Saturday and Fri
day had much to do with Fastening the
end. On FrdayMr. Dana showed signs
OF distress, and everything possible was
done TO relieve him He had been weak
ened by his long illness, and during the
summer was several times Thought to he
on the verge of a fatal collapse, but each
time he rallied. He did not improve much
with the coming cooler weather, and the
sinking spells became more frequent.
On Friday Mr.. Dana was able to take
| only the lightest nourishment, and this
condition continued Paul Dana and his
sisters, Mrs. Eraper, Mrs. Underhll and
Mrs Branan, were at his home On Satur.
day MOI ming 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, q chronic inflnmma-
ton in which the tissues assume a vel
low appearance. On June he was ut
his Office apparently strong and healthy.
The next day he was taken i'll, and he
never atterward visited New York. He
was 70 years old.
Charles Anderson Dana was born in
Htnsdale, N H., in the month of August.
1919. He was descendant of Jacob.
eldest son of Richard Dana, pro0enitor of
most of those who bear the name in the
United States. His boyhood WAS spent
in Buffalo, where he worked in "a store
until he was 18 years old. At that age
he first studied the Latin grammar and
prepared himself for college, entering
Harvard in 1880, but after. two years a
serious trouble with his eyesight COM
PEELED him to leave He received au hon
orable dismissal and was afterwards ri zen
his bachelors and masters degrees.
In 1872 Mr.. Dana became member of
the Brook Farm Association for agricul-
ture and education. being associated with
George and Sophia Ripler, George Will.
liam Curtis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
odoTe Parker, William Henry Charming.
John Dwight, Margaret Fuller and other
philosophers more or less directly con
cerned in the remarkable attempt to real
ize at Roxbury high ideal OF social and
intellectual life. 1t was said that Mr..
Dana was the only man of affairs con-
nected with that experiment.
HIS earliest newspaper experience was
game" in the management of the Hardin
ger, which was devoted to Social reform
and general literature After about two
years of editorial work on Elizur Wright's
Boston Chronotype, "a daily newspaper,
Mr.. Dana Joined the staff of the New
York Tribune, in 1S47 The next wear
he spent eight months in Europe, and
after his return he became one OF the pre-
prietors and managing editor of thn.Tri-
bune which position he held until April
l, 1882. The extraordinary influence
and circulation attained by that news
paper during the next ten years proceed
ing the civil war was in a degree due to
the Development of Mr.. Dana's genius
for journalism and his management of
the stat of writers and to the steadness
of the paper's policy as the leading organ
of anti-savery sentiment. The great
struggle of the Tribune under Horace
Greeley and Mr.. Dana was not so much
Tor the overthrow of slavery where it al
ready EXISTED a. against the further
spread of the institution over unoccupied
territory and the acquisition of slave
holding countries outside of the Union.
In 1861 Mr.. Dana.went to Albany to
advance the cause of Mr.. Greeley rs a
candidate for the United States Senate,
and nearly succeeded i n nominating him.
The caucus was about equally divided
between Mr.. Greeley's friends and those
OF william M. Evarts, while Ira Harris
hal few yotes, which held the balance
OF power. AT the instjgation of Thur
low Weed the supporters of Mr.. Evarts
went'over to Judge Harris.
Dnring the first yeal of the civil war
the ideas of Mr.. Greeley and those of
Mr.. Dana in regard,to the proper conduct
OF military operations were somewhat at
variance, aDd this disagreement resulted
in The resignation OF Mr.. Dana, after IF.
teen years service on the Tribune. He
was ut once employed by Secretary Stan
ton In special work OF Importance for the
War Department, : and in 1868 was ap
pointed Assistant Secretary of War,
which office he held until after the sur
render OF Lee. His duties ns the repre-
sentative of the civil authority Mt tie
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