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he was a Trustee aud Fellow of Harvard College ; and Patron of • 

 was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and coiiege 

 Edinbm-gh. Bowdoin College has proved a splendid 

 memorial to his generosity and interest in the i^nblic wel- 

 fare. 



His son, James, born in Boston in 1752, was graduated Last of 



-, • 1 . T T , *^e Name 



from Harvard, travelled extensively abroad, and then re- 

 turned to serve in the assembly, state senate and state 

 council. He was a delegate to the constitutional conven- 

 tion, and in 1804 was appointed minister to Spain. He 

 was a man of fine tastes and scholarship aud of an ardent 

 disposition which was constantly thwarted by physical 

 weakness. At the outbreak of the Revolution he had en- 

 listed, and it was the keenest regret of his life that sick- 

 ness had prevented him from serving. He was a gener- 

 ous patron of Bowdoin College, giving it six thousand Bequests to 

 acres of land, a large sum of money, and bequeathing it ^ ° ^^* 

 his library and collections of painting and scientific ap- 

 paratus. He died without issue and "with him the 

 name of Bowdoin passed away from the annals of New 

 England." 



The excellent Huguenot blood of the Bowdoins persists, 

 however, in the descendants of Governor Thomas L. Win- 

 throj), who married Elizabeth Temple, granddaughter of 

 Gov. James Bowdoin, The late Robert C. Winthrop, 

 lawyer and statesman, was thus a great-grandson of James 

 Bowdoin. 



II 



The sole ancestor of the Dana family in America was The Dana 

 Richard Dana, who came to Cambridge, Mass., in 1640. ^^""'^y^^o 

 The only record of the name in England is that of the 

 Rev. Edmund Dana, a great-grandson of Richard, who 

 went to England from America in 1761. According to 

 the traditions of the family, Richard's father was a 

 Huguenot who fled from France and settled in England 

 about 1629. One of Richard's descendants, Judah Dana, 

 is said to have had a silver cup which had once been 



