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iiiand of a brigade devolved upon him, and he rendered distinguished service during the three days' battle. He was wounded at the Wilder- ness and was taken prisoner, May 5, 1864, being confined at Macon, Ga., and at Charleston, S.C. He was exchanged Aug. 3, 1864. On Aug. 23, 1865, he was mustered out with the rank of brevet brigadier-general. He was judge of Luzerne county, 1867-77, retiring in the latter year to private life. He was a founder and the first president of the Wj-oming historical and geological society, president of the Society of the army of the Potomac, and president of the Oster- hout free library of Wilkesbarre. He died in Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 25, 1889.

DANA, Edmund Trowbridge, lawyer, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1818; son of Richard Henry (1787-1879) and Ruth Charlotte ^Smith) Dana. He was graduated at the Univer- sity of Vermont in 1839, and in law from Har- vard in 1841. He practised law with his brother, Richard H. Dana, Jr., in Boston, for a short time, wlien his health failed and he sought restoration in Europe, where he also pursued a course of study at Heidelberg, in history and philosophy in their bearings upon law. He received fi-om the University of Heidelberg the degree of J.U.D. summa ctim laiide in 1854 and returned to the United States in 1856. He was an occasional contributor to periodicals, and translated the works of Von Mohl and other German jurists. He died in Boston, Mass., May 18, 1869.

DANA, Edward Salisbury, educator, was born in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 16, 1849; son of James Dwight and Henrietta F. (Silliman) Dana. He was graduated at Yale in 1870, and after a few years of study abroad he returned in 1874 to become a tutor, and a curator of the mineralog- ical collection in Yale college. In 1879 he was advanced from tutor to assistant professor of natural philosophy, and in 1890 became pro- fessor of physics, still retaining the curatorship of the mineralogical collection. In 1884 he was made a member of the National academy of sciences and in 1885 was elected a trustee of the Peabody museum at Yale. He was married in 1883 to Caroline, daughter of William Brooks and Caroline (Bliss) Bristol. Yale conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1874, and that of Ph. D. in 1876. He was an editor of Silliman's Ameri- can Journal of Science from 1875, and is the author •of: A Text-hook of Mineralogy (1877, revised edition 1898); A Text-book of Elementary Mechanics (1881); Dana's System of Mineralogy (6th edition, 1892); Minerals and Hoin to Stitdy Them (1895); and orig- inal papers on mineralogical and other scientific subjects.

DANA, Frances Theodora, See Parsons, Frances Theodora.

DANA, Francis, jurist, was born in Charles- town, Mass., June 13, 1743; son of Richard (1700- 1772) and Lydia (Trowbridge) Dana. He was graduated at Harvard in 1762, studied law with his uncle, Judge Edmund Trowbridge, and was admitted to the bar in 1767. He joined the Sons of Liberty, where he discussed with his fellow patriots the right of taxation, and his law prac- tice consisted largely of causes involving civil and political rights. In 1773 he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of "William EUery of New- port, R.I., afterward a signer of the Declaration of Independence. In April, 1774, he went to England, ostensibly to visit his brother, the Rev. Edmund Dana, settled there, but primarily to represent the patriots of Massachusetts among their friends in England, hoping thereby to avert a conflict by securing a modification of the oppressive laws. He prolonged his visit to two years, but finding no hope for an adjustment, he returned to America in April, 1776, and so re- ported to the patriots. He was a member of the Massachusetts council, 1776-80, a delegate to Continental congress after November, 1776, too late to sign the Declaration of Independence, but he affixed his signature to the articles of confed- eration. He was chairman of the committee on the reorganization of the army, of the committee to visit the soldiers at Valley Forge in 1778, and of the committee to consider the conciliatory pro- posals of Lord North, which were unanimously rejected. In 1779 he was secretary of legation to France, with power to treat for peace and com- merce with Great Britain, and he accompanied John Adams on the mission, arriving at Paris early in 1780. They subsequently visited Hol- land to negotiate a loan for the United States and on his return to Paris he found 'his commis- sion as U.S. minister to Russia and proceeded to St. Petersburg in the summer of 1781. The Empress Catherine did not receive him officially, fearing the displeasure of England and wishing to act as mediator between the two countries, but he was accorded access to the minister of foreign affairs and reported the political condi- tion to Robert R. Livingston, the American secretary of foreign affairs. After two years' residence at the court of St. Petersburg, Mr. Dana, considering that he had remained as long as appeared to him compatible with the dignity of his country, obtained leave from congress and left St. Petersburg in September, 1783, returning to Boston. In 1784 he was again in congress as a delegate and at the beginning of 1785 he left con- gress, having been appointed to a seat on the supreme bench of Massachusetts. He was ap- pointed a delegate to the Philadelphia convention of 1787, which framed the constitution, but ill health prevented his attendance. He was, how-