Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21
l DANA DEAD
Passes Away Quietly Surrounded ,
His Family.

New York, Oct 19.-Charlas
Dana. editor Of the New York sra
died Sunday afternoon Of cirrhos;o
the liver. On June 9 Mr.. Dana's ION
ing strength indicated the disaoa.
which was TO end his life and mos.
it advisable to give up his active A;
rection Of his newspaper and retire :,
fis beautiful home on Dosoris ISLAM
Once there, it became evident "a ~
physicians that the only effective ~
ir which his life could be prolongAS
was to give him absolute rest u.
had gradually grown weaker and N.
end came peacefully with his faniI,
around his death bed.
The funeral services will be bs,a
tomorrow. The service will he roas
in st. Paul's Episcopal church =.
Glencove, l.. l., the interment bein,
at the cemetery adjoining.
Charles Anderson Dana was a Rp,.
falonian in his youth, living tbers
from 1888 to 1889. He left that ci,y
for the east and education when Eris
county was still a forest, and Lake
Erie furrowed by a few keels. Ho
was born in Hinsdale. Vt. Aug
1919, and was a descendant of Jacob
eldest o of Richard Dana, prog4p.
itor Of those who bear the name in
the United States. Vermont Offered
a poor living for the family, which
broke up fast. The eldest son went
to Buffalo and opened a store, and
al other in Sardinia. Charles was
twelve years old when he left home
to join his brother in Buffalo. Dana
cared nothing for female society and
Stunned social gatherings, preferring
to spend his evenings at home, read
ing Of the revolution and the early
presidents. He admired Andrew Jack.
son greatly, and was ever sounding
the praises of the great Tennesseean.
Tom Paine he dared to read and ad-
mire, despite the ban upon his name
and works, and 1t was whispered by
the straight-laced mes that young
Dana was an infidel. He was not
but he admired the virile English and
mastery logic of the author of Com.
mon Sense and Theorists" 1t was
always a fine trait of Dana's that he
could appreciate the good qualities OF
cried him and public estimation held
him of little worth. Until he was II
Dana reveled in the treasures of Eng
fish literature, and acquired a splen-
cid mastery of his tongue. Then a
sudden thirst for latin seized him.
and, borrowing a latin grammar, he
mastered it in a few months, and on
his eighteenth birthday told his
brother that he was resolved to have
an education. His savings amounted
to little, and his brother gave him
500 to help him through Harvard
On a June morning in 1889 he left
Buffalo and in September entered
Harvard, where he remained two
years, when eye trouble forced him
to leave. Mr.. Dana united, in 1S41
with Theodore Parker, Emerson, Mar,
garet Fuller, George William Curtis
Hawthorne, Charming and others, il
forming he famous Brook Farm com
munity at Roxbury, Mass. He wa.
one Of the editors of The Harbinger
a weekly paper, which advocated so
cialistic principles. He later con
tributed to the Boston Chronotyp,
and became assistant editor of th-
New York Tribune in 1S47. Later h
became managing editor. BY reason
of his disagreement with Horace
Greeley he left the Tribune and il
) he was appointed by Secretar,
stanton as assistant secretary of war
Then he went to Chicago as edito
OF the Chicago Republican, but re
turned to New York and purchase,
a large interest in The Sun, which h
controlled up to the time of his death
Now it is expected that there will b
a tremendous struggle between Pau
Dana, the editors son: William NJ
Laffan, the business manager, and th
wall street interests for the contro
OF the paper. Charles A. Dana Dor
roWed on his stock, and j. Pierpon
Morgan may have much to say re
garding the management of the pa
per.