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ever, a member of the Massachusette convention of 178S called to decide upon the adoption of the instrument and took a leading part in that his- torical gathering in advocating the measure. In November, 1791, he was appointed chief justice of Massacluisetts. He was a presidential elector in 1789, 1793. 1801 and 1809. He was obliged to decline the appointment made by President Adams in 1797 as envoy to France with C. C. Pinckney and John Marshall, as well as to resign the post of chief justice in 1806.. on account of his health. He was a founder of the American acad- emy of arts and sciences and its vice-president. He received from Harvard the degree of A.M. in 1763 and that of LL.D. in 1792. He died in Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 1811.

DANA, Henshaw, musician, was born at West Newton, Mass., Feb. 7, 1846; son of Charles Fuller and Eliza Henshaw (Bates) Smith, and grandson of the Hon. Isaac Chapman Bates, law- 3'er, representative in congress and U.S. senator. His name was Charles Henshaw Smith until the marriage of his mother in 1860 to John A. Dana, when he adopted legally the name of his step- father. He was educated in Northampton, Mass., whither he had been taken in 1847, until 1860, when he removed to Worcester, Mass. He studied under Otto Dresel in Boston until 1869 when he went to Leipzig, and placed himself imder the tuition of Papperitz. Later he studied four years in Stuttgart, under Lepert, Speidl and Kriiger. ^Ir. Dana made his first public ap- pearance with Kriiger, playing with success before an audience comprising the entire royal family. He was soon after given charge of the organ at St. Catherine's, Stuttgart, and there produced his first anthem, " By the Rivers of Babylon." His musical studies were completed in Paris under Delaborde, and he returned to America in 1875, where he made his debut at the annual session of the Worcester county musical association, playing Mendelssohn's concerto in G minor with orchestral accompaniment, and win- ning enthusiastic applause. He became organist and later director of the Church of the Immacu- late Conception in Boston, Mass. Among his vocal comjiositions are: Sing Xo Sad Sonrjs for Me (1865) ; Marrjuerite (1867) ; Like a Strain of Won- drous 3/i<.sic (1870) ; Glamonrie {\S10) ; The Black- bird Sings (1871) ; By the Itivers of Babylon (1872) ; Te Deum in D (1873) ; In the Hushes of the Midnight (1874) ; Aviong t-he Lilies (1875) : Mine (1875) ; Salve Begina, No. 1 (1876); Ave Maria (1877); Night of Arngon (1877); Are Maria (1877); Salutaris (1878): Salve Begina, No. 2 (1879); The Trouba- dour (1879); The Lilies Clnsterrd Fair and Tall riSSl) ; As When the Wmry Traveler Gains (1882) ; and Edenland (1883). See Memoir by C. A. Chase (1884). He died in Worcester, Mass., Feb. 5, 1883.

DANA, Israel Thorndike, physician and educator, was born in Marbleliead, Mass., June 6, 1827; son of the Rev. Samuel and Henrietta (Bridge), grandson of the Rev. Joseph, great grandson of Joseph and Rebecca (Hamblet), great 2 grandson of Benjamin and Mary (Buck- minster), and great^ grand.son of Richard Dana, who came from England bj' or before 1640, and Anne Bullard, his wife. The family is .said to be of French origin. His preparatory education was acquired at the Marblehead academy and in his fatlier's study, whence he entered Harvard and was graduated in medicine in 1850. After three years of study in Europe and America he established himself in Portland, Maine, as a gen- eral practitioner and heart and lung specialist. He assisted in founding the Portland school of medical instruction, and in 1860 accepted the chair of materia medica in the medical school of Maine, a part of Bowdoin college. The follow- ing year he was transferred to the chair of the theory and practice of medicine, which he occu- pied until 1869, after which he devoted his whole time to his private practice in Portland. He was an active worker in founding the Maine general hospital opened in 1875 and was appointed senior attending physician. In 1880 he returned to his chair at Bowdoin. Bowdoin conferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1889. He is the author of : Beport on Defective Drainage and Sew- erage as a Source of Disease (1871 ) ; History of the Portland School for Medical Instruction (1874), and various articles in medical journals.

DANA, James, clergyman, was born in Cam- bridge, Mass., May 11, 1735; son of Caleb and Phebe (Chandler), grandson of Daniel and Naomi (Croswell), and great-grandson of Richard Dana, who came from England about 1640, and Anne Bullard, his wife. He was graduated from Har- vard college in 1753, and was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1758, having studied theology and literature at Harvard and at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He was set- tled at Wallingford, Conn., but on account of his liberal theology his ordination was protested against by the New Haven county association. Tlie people of Wallingford remaining loyal to their chosen pastor, a division was the result, Mr. Dana and the ordaining clergy leading one side and the consociation forming the other. This exi.sted until 1772 when the consociation be- came reconciled to Mr. Dana's views. At the outbreak of the Revolution he sympathized strongly with the colonists, and thus won great popularity. He preached in New Haven. Conn.. 1789-1805, and while there became involved in a theological controversy with Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Austin, regarding free moral agency. He was married to Catherine Whittlesey. He