The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-19
A REMARKABLE CAREER
WITH HORACE GREELEY HE
MADE THE TRIBUNE FAMOUS
IN IT'S STRONG ANTI-SLAV
cry POLICY.
END CANE AT HIS l0NG ISLAND HONE
As Assistant Secretary of War He Upheld Grant
at Vicksburg and had Close Personal
Relations With Lincoln.
Relations With Lincoln.

New York, Oct 17.-Charles A. Dara'
editor of the New York Sun, died at his
home in Glencove, Long Island, at 1:2O
o'clock this afternoon.
Mr.. Dana's death had been expected
for several hours, and his family and
physicians were at his bedside when
the end came. His condition had been
such several months that the members
of his family had kept themselves in
constant readiness to go to his bedside
at any moment. On Saturday morpinG
he had a relapse, and it was apparent
that recovery was impossible. Several
times. however, he rallied, but toward
night he began to sink. During the
night there were feeble rallies, but they
did not last long.
This morning it was seen that the end
was but a few hours off, and his attend
ants remained almost constantly at his
side. The end came quietly.
WEAKENED BY LONG ILLNESS.
The extreme heat of Friday and Satur-
day had much to do with Fastening the
end. On Friday he showed signs of dis
tress, and everything possible was done
to relieve him. He had been weakened
by his long illness, and during the sum-
mer was several times thought to be or
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 fire.
quent
On Friday Mr.. Danna was able to
take only the lightest nourishment, and
this condition continued. Paul Dana
| and his sisters. Mrs. Draper, Mrs. I'm
derhill, and Mrs. Branan, were at his
home on Saturday morning. and were
warned to remain there. They We're at
| the bedside when death came
| The cause of Mr. Dana's death was
! cirrhosis of the liver On June 3 he
was at his office, apparently strong and
| healthy. The next day he was taken i'll,
| and he never afterward visited NV
| York. He was seventye.ght yaers old.
Charles Anderson Dana was born in
| Hinsdale. n. H., August s, 1919, and
WIS the oldest son OF Richard Dana,
u.'oee father, Jacob, was the progenitor
of most of those who bear the name in
| the United States. Mr.. Dana's boyhoOd
was spent in Buffalo, n. Y, where he
worked in store until he was eighteen
years old when he first studied Latin
and began to prepare himself for col
lege. He entered Harvard in 1889, but
after a two years course he was COM
PEELED to leave on account of a serious
trouble with his eye-sight. He received
an honorable dismissal and was later
given the degrees of bachelor and mas
ter of laws.
In 1912 he became member of the
Brook Farm Association for agriculture
and education, being associated with
George and Sophia Ripley, George Will
liam Curtis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theo-
dore Parker, William Henry Claiming
John Sullivan Dwight, Margaret Full
Ter, and other philosophers more or less
directly concerned in an attempt to real
ize at Roxbury a high ideal of social and
intellectual life. Mr.. Dana's earliest
newspaper experience was gained in the
management of the Harbinger, which
was devoted to social reform and litera-
ture.
As EDpTOR OF THE VPJRIT\F