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in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and other places, which have never been publislied. He was married in 1813 to Ruth Charlotte, daugliter of John AVilson Smith of Taunton. Mass. She died in 182'2, leaving four children of whom Richard Henry was the second. His health not being strong, he lived a retired life, spending his winters in Boston and his summers at his coun- try seat on Cape Ann. He received from Wil- liams college the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1807. Notable among his prose writings are the stories Tmn Tlwrutnn and Pnul Frltoi), and his essay on Kean's acting, which was first pub- lished in The Idle Man, 1821-22. He died in Boston. Mass., Feb. 2, 1879.

DANA, Richard Henry, lawyer, was born in Cambridge. Mass., Aug. 1, 1815; son of Richard Henry (1787-1879) and Ruth Charlotte (Smith) Dana. He entered Harvard in the class of 1835 but a class " rebellion " caused him to be rusti- cated for six montlis, during which time he studied under the Rev. Leonard Woods, Jr., afterward pres- ident of Bowdoin col- lege. He returned to Harvard and had fin- nished his sojihomore year when an attack of measles left liis eyes so weak that he was obliged to leave college. He shipped before the mast on the brig Pilgrimhound (fi^oC '^. ^zu^Z.. ^o'- California, Aug. ^ 14, 1834, and returned to Boston, arriving in the .ship Alert, Sept. 22, 1836. In December, 1836, he joined the senior class of Harvard where he took a Bowdoin prize for English prose composition and the first Boyl- ston prize for elocution, his marks making him first scholar of the cla.ss, but as his time with it was less than a year, he was graduated in 1837 with no special rank. He then entered the Dane law school, where he was graduated in 1839. He was instructor in the department of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard, l839-i0, and studied the practice of law in the office of Charles G. Loring of Boston in 1840, opening an office in Boston and V)eginning practice on his own account in Septem- ber of that year. He defended Anthony Burns, the fugitive slave, in May, 1854. as he had Sims in 1851. After the trial he was waj-laid and as.saulted by a member of the marshal's guard who was arrested, escaped to New Orleans, and was there again arrested and returned for trial to Boston. On Aug. 25. 1841, he was married to Sarah, daughter of William Watson of Hartford,

Conn. He made a tour of the world, 1859-60. He was for many years a delegate to the conven- tions of the Episcopal church in Massachusetts. He was a sound money Republican candidate for representative in the 41st congress from the Essex district in 1868, and was defeated by Gen. B. F. Butler. In March, 1876, President Grant named him as U.S. minister to England to suc- ceed General Schenck, but through the personal influence of literary ^.nd political enemies, his nomination was rejected by a vote of thirty-one to seventeen. He was one of the counsel of the U.S. government before the international con- ference at Halifax, 1877, growing out of the Geneva award of 1872 and relating to the fish- eries. He was an overseer of Harvard, 1871-77. and lecturer there on international law, 1866-68. He received the honorary degree of J. CD. from Hobart in 1853 and that of LL.D. from Harvard in 1866. The manuscript of his Tiro Years Before the M'lxt was sent b}^ his father in 1839 to William CuUen Brj'ant, who read it, pronounced it as good as '• Robinson Crusoe " and then offered it to several New York publishers, finally selling it to Harper & Brothers for two hundred and fifty dollars. It was published by them in 1840 with great success, passed through several editions, was reprinted in England, afterward translated into several European languages, and repub- lished with an additional chapter in 1869. He published The Seaman's Friend (1841), reprinted in England as The Seaman's Manual, and adopted by the board of admiralty as a book for distribu- tion in the British navy; and To Cuba and Back (1859). He also wrote annotations toWheaton's l)dernational Law (1866) and biographical sketches of Edward Channing, Washington Allston and others. He went abroad in 1878 for the purpose of pursuing his studies in international law pre- jiaratorj' to an exhaustive work on that subject, and died in Rc.me, Italy, Jan. 6, 1882.

DANA, Richard Henry, lawyer, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 3, 1851; son of Richard Henry (181.5-1882) and Sarah (Watson) Dana. He was graduated at Harvard college in 1874, as class orator, and at Harvard law school in 1877. He declined the position of .secretary of legation at London offered him by President Hayes in 1877. He was married, Jan. 6, 1878, to Edith, daugliter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He l)ractised his profession in Boston, was a regular contributor to the Civil Service Becord, and an advocate of tariff and political reform. He drew up the j>lan of organization of the Boston asso- ciated charities and was chairman of its first conference. In 1886 he drafted the Massachusetts civil service law, and in 1888 drew up the Aus- tralian ballot law of Ma.ssachusetts, the first bill of its kind to pass in the United States. He