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 1 62 DANA. DANA. able Artillery for the past twenty years. In 1852 he was elected major of the 1st Mas- sachusetts regiment, but did not qualify. During the war he performed patriotic service under Governor Andrew and Mayor Lincoln of Boston, in filling the quota of men allotted to the city. He is a member of the Knights of Honor, Royal Arcanum, Odd Fellows, and is a Mason of the 32d degree. He has been, since its organiza- tion, president of the Supreme Parliament of the Golden Rule Alliance, and for the past fifteen years a trustee of the state school for the feeble-minded. His church connections have ever been with the Methodist Episcopal church, serv- ing for twenty-three consecutive years as superintendent of a Sabbath-school. He has been identified with the Good Tem- plars, and is an ardent Prohibitionist. A large number of interesting and valu- able presents received at various times from his comrades, the city authorities and the general public, attest the popularity, high character and unquestioned ability of Boston's celebrated fire-captain. He is now president of the Boston Firemen's Cemetery Association, and chairman of the executive committee to erect a monument to their honor. DANA, Richard Henry, son of Rich- ard Henry and Sarah (Wolson) Dana, was born in Cambridge, Middlesex county, Jan- uary 3. 1851. He received his early educational train- ing in the private and public schools of his native city. He fitted for college in St. Paul's School, Concord, N. II., and was graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1874. He chose the profession of law, and pur- suing his legal studies in the Harvard law school, was graduated in 1877. Fie began practice with his father at Boston in 1878, then with H. L. Harding in 1879, and is now in business alone. Besides being en- gaged in the active practice of the law, he is manager of various large and important trusts. Mr. Dana was married in Cambridge, January 10, 1878, to Edith, daughter of the late Henry W. and Frances (Appleton) Longfellow. Of this union were five chil- dren : Richard Henry, Jr., Henry W. L., Frances A., Allston, and Edmund Trow- bridge Dana. His residence is Cambridge. Mr. Dana went abroad in 1882 to recover from the effects of a serious attack of ty- phoid fever. Since his return he has de- voted the spare time from his profession mostly to the cause of civil service reform, writing numerous articles in the " Civil Service Record," of which he became chief editor in January, 1889. He was a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Civil Service Re- form League which presented a bill for the reform of the civil service of the cities and towns of the Commonwealth. He was sec- retary of the independent Republicans at their meeting in New York, February 23, 1884, and has been connected with several philanthropic societies in Boston, especially the Associated Charities, in which organiza- tion in 1878 and '79 he labored, and whose scheme of work he formulated. In the winter of i887-'S he drew up a bill for the introduction of the Australian ballot law, which was in substance adopted by the Legislature (1888, chapter 436). He was much interested in improved dwellings for the laboring classes, and is vice-president of the Improved Dwellings Association which built a fine building (i888-'9) at South Boston, which is proving a success both financially and as a benefit to the poorer classes. To the organization of the corporation, and the plans of the building he gave much time. In 1884-'^ he built a house for a summer home on a part of the estate formerly belonging to his grandfather at Manchester-by-the-Sea. DANA, THOMAS, son of William and Lucinda (Weston) Dana, was born in Springfield, Windsor county, Vt., Decem- ber 8, 183-3. He obtained his early education in the common schools of his native place and at Wesleyan Academy, graduating there in 1848. In 1850 he began his business life with Tarbell & Dana, wholesale grocers. At twenty-one years of age he was taken into the concern as a partner, under the firm name of Tarbell, Dana & Co. In 1863 he pur- chased the interest of Mr. Tarbell and formed the firm of Thomas Dana &: Co., which has continued with increasing pros- perity to the present time. Mr. 1 tana was married in Upper Falls, Vt., February 9, 1855, to Helen P. Wil- liams. In 186 1 he was again married to Mary C, daughter of Sewall and Rebecca (Hyde) Baldwin, of Cambridge. They have three children : William Franklin, Helen, and Ada Dana. Mr. Dana has never allowed himself to be drawn into the arena of politics, belong- ing rather to that small but influential body of citizens who control events by their force of character, and shape public opinion by their own lives of unimpeached integrity.