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Deutsche Tonkiinstler-Verein, invited him to conduct Dr. Leopold Damrosch"s compositions. In 1890 he prepared a series of lecture-recitals explanatory of Wagner's dramas, illustrated by selections on the piano- forte. These he delivered in many large cities in the United States. He was married, May 17, 1890, to Margaret J., daughter of the Hon. James G. Blaine, secretary of state in President Garfield's administration. In December, 1894, he produced in New York city, with the aid of the Symphony society, se- lections from the original opera, ' ' The Scarlet Letter" founded on Hawthorne's novel. This, his first important composition, won favorable notice from the critics, and was well received in a subsequent operatic tour throughout the prin- ciijal cities of the United States. On March 2, 1896, he began in New York a season of Wagner opera, with a company- including Sucher, Gadsky, Alvary, Brema and others who had never before been heard in America. This tour was so successful that Mr. Damrosch organized a company for the following year on an even larger scale, producing Wagner's " Ring of Nibe- lungen," "Tristan und Isolde," and others, travelling as far south as New Orleans and as far west as Denver, Col. In 1898 he gradually withdrew from his public duties, resigning from the New York oratorio and symphony societies, in order to devote himself more exclusively to music composition. The first fruit of his retire- ment was the "Manila Te Deum," written in com- memoration of Dewey's victory at Manila Bay in 1898. This work was produced with great success and in the presence of hundreds of United States army and navy ofiicers, by the Oratorio society in New York, December, 1898, and Jan. 10, 1899, in Philadelphia, under the composer's personal direction. Mr. Damrosch was elected, in 1890, a member of the Century association, being one of the youngest members of that society. Notable among his compositions are: The Scarlet Letter (1894); 3IanUa Te Denm (1898) ; Kipling's Barrack Boom Ballads, Danny Deerer, MamlnJay, and others.

DANA, Alexander Hope, lawj-er, was born in Owego, N.Y., July 4, 1807; son of Judge Eleazer and Polly (Stevens), grandson of Anderson and Susanna (Huntington), great-grandson of Jacob and Abigail, great^ grandson of Jacob and Patience, and great ^ grandson of Richard Dana, who came from England to Cambridge, Mass., by or before 1640, and Anne Bullard, his wife. Tradition says that the family is of French descent. Alexander was graduated from Union college in 1824 and in 1828 was admitted to the bar, becoming a successful practitioner in New York city. He was married to Augusta Rad- cliffe. He is the author of all the articles on

legal subjects in the Xeio American Cyclopa'dia; and of Ethical and Physiological Inquiries Belative to Subjects of Popular Interest (1862) ; Inquiries on Physiology, Ethics and Ethnology (1873) ; and Enig- mas of Life and Death (1882). He died in Mont- clair. N.i, Aprir27, 1887.

DANA, Amasa, representative, was born in Ithaca, N.Y., Oct. 19, 1792; son of Azael and Rebecca (Corey) Dana; grandson of Anderson and Susanna (Huntington) Dana, and cousin of Alexander Hope Dana. He vv-as admitted to the bar and practised law in Ithaca, N. Y. He repre- sented that city in the state assembly in 1828 and 1829, and his district in the 26th and 28th con- gresses, 1839-41, 1843-45. His wife was Mary Har- per Speed. He died at Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 24. 1867.

DANA, Charles Anderson, journalist, was born in Hinsdale, N.H., Aug. 8, 1819; son of An- derson and Ann (Dennison) Dana; grandson of the Hon. Daniel and Dolly (Kibbe) Dana; great-grandson of Anderson and Susanna (Hunt- ington) Dana; and second cousin of Alexander

Hope Dana. At an

early age he was taken to Buffalo, N.Y. ; later removed to Gaines, Orleans count}', N.Y., where he received his pri- mary school training, and in 1830 returned to Buffalo, where he clerked in a store till 1837, when his uncle, bj' whom he was em- ployed, failed in busi- ness. He then took ^^ / r> up the study of Latin C/ * *^y U^^-^CyK..-6c and in two years

prepared himself for college. He entered Harvard with the class of 1843 but was com- pelled to leave before the beginning of his junior year on account of an affliction of the eyes. He then joined the Brook Farm com- munity at West Roxbury, Mass., and there recovered the use of his eyes and at the same time gained an acquaintance with men and women of advanced thought. He was initiated into journalism at Brook Farm by working on the Harbinger and afterward on the Chronotype, published in Boston by Elizur Wright, which experience was his first school in the direction of reform of social inaccuracies. He was married in 1846 to Eunice, daughter of John Mac- daniel of Washington, D.C. In 1847 he removed to New York city to take a position on the staff of the Tribune as city editor. He spent eight months of 1848 in Europe as a newspaper corre- spondent and witness of the French revolution.

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