CHAPTER IX 



THE PROFESSORSHIP IN YALE UNIVERSITY 



Marriage Aspects of New Haven and of Yale College in the Middle of the 

 Century The Faculty of that Period Overtures from Harvard 

 Appointment in Yale Inaugural Lecture Varied Pursuits Char- 

 acteristics as a Teacher Estimates of his Pupils Prolonged Ill- 

 Health. 



SOME months after his return from the Pacific, Mr. 

 Dana announced his engagement to Miss Henrietta 

 Silliman, daughter of his former teacher, Benjamin Sil- 

 liman,and sister of his future colleague, Benjamin Silliman, 

 Jr.* The marriage took place in New Haven, June 5, 1844, 

 and after that New Haven was Dana's permanent abode. f 

 Those who live at a distance, and others whose memory 

 does not go back to the middle of the century, may per- 

 haps take an interest in a sketch, though it is only a 



* Her two elder sisters were already married Maria to John B. Church, 

 and Faith to Oliver P. Hubbard, Professor of Chemistry in Dartmouth 

 College, now living in New York, above the age of ninety. The youngest 

 sister, Julia, married, several years later, Rev. Edward W. Oilman, Secre- 

 tary of the American Bible Society. 



f The happiness of the home was greatly increased by the children that 

 from time to time came into it. These were six in all, of whom four sur- 

 vive. Two, a son and daughter, died of diphtheria in early childhood, in 

 August, 1861. The eldest ..daughter, Frances, has been since November, 

 1870, the wife of George D. Coit, of Norwich, Conn. The eldest son, 

 Edward Salisbury, is well known as his father's associate in the Faculty of 

 Yale University, and in the editorship of the Journal of Science. Another 

 son, Arnold Guyot, is connected with the Financial Chronicle, edited by 

 his uncle, William B. Dana, in New York City. The youngest daughter 

 is still her mother's companion. 



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