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ernor Morril of New Hampshire; in 1825 was a representative from Hanover in the general court, and in lir^-O visitor to the United States military academy. He was lecturer to the New York Athenajum and a member of the Linnean society. He is the author of: Outlines f>f Mineral- ogy and GeoUxjy of Boston and Its Victnity (with his brother, Samuel Luther Dana, 181^); and .1« Epitome of Chemical Philosophy (1825); besides many contributions to scientific i>eriodicals. He died in New York city, April 14, 1827.

DANA, John Cotton, librarian, was born at AVoo.istock. Vt.. Aug. 19, 1856; son of Cliarles and Charitie Scott (Loomis) Dana; grandson of Charles and Mary Gay (Swan) Dana and of Jeduthan and Charity (Scott) Loomis, and a de- scendant in the seventli generation from Richard and Anne (Bullard) Dana (1640). He was pre- pared for college at the public schools of Wood- stock and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1878. He then studied law in Woodstock and in New York city, and in 1880 removed to Colorado where he engaged in land surveying, 1880-81. Returning to his native place he resumed the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1883; but illness prevented him from practising, and he again went to Colorado where he was a civil en- gineer. 1886-87. In 1889 the public library of Denver was opened and Mr. Dana was appointed librarian, which position lie resigned in Novem- ber, 1897, to succeed the Rev. Dr. William Rice as librarian of the city library, Springfield, Mass. He was married Nov. 15, 1888, to Adine Rowena, daughter of Stokeley Tolls Waggener of Russell- viUe. Ky.

DANA, John Winchester, governor of Maine, was born in Fryeburg, Maine, Jan. 21, 1808; son of Judge Judah and Elizabeth (Riplej') Dana. He was admitted to the bar and practised in Fryeburg, where he held several local offices. In 1834 he was married to Elizabeth Ann Osgood. He was governor of Maine, 1847-50; charge d'affaires at Bolivia, S.A., 1853, and minister resident, 1854->59. In March, 1859, he returned to his native state but in 1862 again visited South America for the benefit of his health. He died in Rosario, New Grenada. S.A., Dec. 22, 1867.

DANA, Judah, senator, was born in Pomfret, Conn., April 25, 1772; son of John Winchester and Hannah (Putnam), grand.son of Isaac and Sarah (Winche.ster) and great-grand.son of Benja- min and Mary (Buckminster) Dana; and second cousin of Judge Samuel Dana (1739-98). He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1795, was admitted to the bar in 1798, and removed to Fryeburg, Maine, then a part of Massachu.setts, where he practispd his profession. He was government attorney, 180.5-11; judge of probate, 1811-22. and judge of the court of common pleas, 1811-23. He

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was also a circuit judge, and in 1819 represented Fryeburg in the Maine constitutional convention. He was a member of the state executive council and by appointment of tiie governor was a sena- tor in congress from Maine, 1836-37. He was married in 1810 to Elizabeth Ripley. He died in Fryeburg, Maine, Dec. 27, 1845.

DANA, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh, sol- dier, was born in Fort Sullivan. Eastport, Maine, April 15, 1822; son of Capt. Nathaniel Giddings and Mary Ann Langdon (Harris), grandson of Luther and Lucy (Giddings), and great-grandson of the Rev. Samuel (1739-98) and Anna (Kendrick) Dana, and on the maternal side a great- grandson of the Hon. Woodbury Langdon (1739-1805) of Ports- mouth, N.H. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1842, serving on garri- son duty in the 7th in- fantry as 2d lieuten- ant in the southwest until the war with Mexico called him into active service. He was promoted 1st lieutenant and served in the principal battles of the war. While storming the Mexican intrench- ments at Cerro Gordo he was severely wounded, and his body, discovered after the battle, was about to be buried, when he revived. He was made captain by brevet " for gallant and meri- torious conduct." He was promoted captain on staff and assistant quartermaster in March, 1848, and served on garrison duty in the west, 1848-55. He resigned from the army in 1855 and estab- lished himself in the banking business in St. Paul, Minn, serving in the state militia as briga- dier-general, 1857-61. He raised and commanded the 1st Minnesota infantry during the first year of the civil war and in Februarj-, 1862, was pro- moted brigadier-general. He fought under Mc- Clellan in western Virginia and on the Peninsula, commanding a brigade in Sedgwick's division until July 10, 1862, and was on sick leave until Sept. 2, 1862. At Antietam he received a severe wound, was carried from the field for dead, and was incapacitated for active field service until Nov. 27, 1862. He was promoted major-general of volunteers in November, 1862, and was in command of the defences of Philadelphia during Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania in 1863. He then joined the army of the Gulf and was given com- mand of the expedition dispatched by sea to the Rio Grande, Texas, to cut off the commu- nication of the Confederate army with Mexico.