The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-18

relieve him. He had been weakened by
his long illness and during the summer
was several times thought to be on the
verge of a fatal collapse, but each time
rallied He did not improve much with
the coming of cooler weather, and the
sinking spells became more frequent.
On Friday Mr.. Dana was able to take
only the Hghtest nourishment. and this
condition continued. Paul Dana and his
sisters, Mrs Draper. Mrs. Underhill and
Mrs Branan, were at his home on Satur-
day morning and were warned to re-
main there. They were at the bedside
when death came.
The cause of MIR. Dana's death was cir
ThOsis of the liver. On June he was at
his office apparently strong and healthy
The next day he was taken i'll and he
never afterward visited New York. He
was Is years of age.
Preparations for the burial have not yet
been completed.
Charles Anderson Dana was born Au-
gust s. 1919, in Hinsda1e, Cheshire county.
x. H, from which town, when he was ?
years old, his parents moved to Gaines
Orleans county, N. Y, and afterward
when he was about years old they re
moved to Guildhau, VT At the age of
Y he went to live with his uncle in Buff
falo, n. Y. He was educated in the
ward college. leaving on account of fail
ing eyesight. but eventually receiving his
degree of A. B. as a member of the
class of 1843. and also in 1851 the honor
airy degree of A NJ. In 1912 he became
one of the Brook Farm association at
Roxbury, Mass, and his first newspaper
work was on the Harbfnger. a paper con
nected with that experiment. He was
assistant editor to Elizur Wright in 1874
on the Boston Chronotype.
In 1s47 he went to New York as assist
ant to Horace Greeley on the New York
Tribune, aiding in making the paper a
radical anti-slavery journal, and contin-
uing with it after a voyage to Europe in
1913, as one of the proprietors and as man
aging editor, until April J. 1862 when he
resigned on sudden request from Mr.
Greeley, made becau he was too strenu-
ously forcing the Tribune to demand the
utmost possible vigor in the prosecution
of the war. He did not again meet Gree
ley until ten years later, when he was
supporting him in the Sun as the Dem
Oeratic nominee for the presidency.
On June IS. 1862, he became attached to
the war department as one of the depart
ment commission to investigate claims
at Cairo. H., ana on March u, 1868, as
special commissioner of the department
TO report on the condition of the pay serv~
Ice IN the western army On June 1, 1863
in order that he might be subject to mill
tary exchange if captured when visiting
the front Of the army he was appointed
major and assistant adjutant general. In
December, 1858, he was nominated to the
senate for that office. but he never for
many accepted it and the nomination, at
his request, after he returned from vicks-
burg. was withdrawn
On January % 1864 he was nominated
assistant secretary of war for one
year from January 10. 1864, and took the
oath of office on January Is. He was re-
nominated January 5. 1865, rendering the
principal part of his service for the war
department under the above commissions
and as assistant secretary by visiting the
army headquarters of Rosecrans, Sheri-
dan. Sherman and Grant. advising conf
dentially with the commanding officers.
ana corresponding freely with President