THE DANA FAMILY 



Among the more famous of those no longer living may 

 be mentioned Francis Dana, Chief-Justice of Massachu- 

 setts; his son, Richard Henry Dana, poet and man of 

 letters, and his son, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author of 

 Two Years before the Mast, an acknowledged authority on 

 international law; Rev. Joseph Dana, D.D., of Ipswich, 

 Massachusetts, and his son, Rev. Daniel Dana, D.D., of 

 Newburyport, Massachusetts; Rev. James Dana, D.D., 

 of Wallingford, Connecticut, and his son, Samuel Whit- 

 tlesey Dana, LL.D., United States Senator from Connec- 

 ticut; Hon. John Winchester Dana, Governor of Maine; 

 James Freeman Dana, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in 

 Dartmouth College and in New York; Samuel Luther 

 Dana, M.D., of Waltham, and afterward of Lowell, 

 Massachusetts, a practical chemist ; and Charles A. Dana, 

 of New York, Assistant Secretary of War, and still more 

 widely known as editor of the Tribune and the Sun. 



The pedigree of James Dwight Dana is this: he was 

 the son of James Dana, of Utica, New York (1780- 1860), 

 who was the son of George Dana, of Stow and Ashburn- 

 ham, Massachusetts (1744-1787), the son of Caleb Dana, 

 of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1697-1769), the son of 

 Daniel Dana, of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1663-1749), 

 who was the son of the original immigrant, Richard Dana, 

 of Cambridge (died in 1690), and Anne Bullard, his wife 

 (died in 1711). 



Various efforts have been made to discover the Euro- 

 pean ancestry and connections of the American Danas. 

 The Italian origin of the family has been suggested. 

 Thus, Signer Quintino Sella, Minister of Finance under 

 Victor Emanuel, wrote from Turin in 1869 to Professor 

 Dana, saying: " It is most probable, if not quite sure, 

 that Italy has the right of claiming you as one of her 

 offspring." He adds that the birthplace of the Dana or 

 Danna family is Vasco, a village near Mondovi, where 

 there are still many branches of the Dana family. " It is 



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