Dana, CHARLES ANDERSON

Dana, CHARLES ANDERSON, an American man of letters, was born at Hinsdale, New Hampshire, 8th August 1819, spent two years at Harvard, and was a member of the Brook Farm (q.v.) community. From 1848 to 1862 he was the managing editor of the New York Tribune, which he was largely instrumental in making the leading organ of the party opposed to the extension of slavery to new territories; and from 1863 to the close of the war he was assistant-secretary of war. In 1867 he purchased the New York Sun, and commenced the successful management of that journal on democratic lines. He published several translations and anthologies, collaborated in a Life of Grant (1868), and, along with George Ripley (q.v.), planned and edited the New American Cyclopædia (1857–63), and its revised edition, the American Cyclopædia (1873–76; see ENCYCLOPÆDIA). He died on the 18th October 1897.