Dana family
The Dana family is a Boston Brahmin family that arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts from England during the later end of the Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640).
Richard Dana, immigrant[edit]
The patriarch, Richard Dana (c.1620—1690) was said to have been born in France. A Huguenot, he would have fled to England as a result of the Edict of Restitution of 1629, and subsequently emigrated to New England, settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts by 1640.[1][2][3] However there is no evidence that any Dana was among the Huguenots that fled to England, and there was a Richard Dana born in Manchester, England in 1617 who is the right age and disappears from English records before Richard Dana arrives in Cambridge.[4]
In Cambridge, he served numerous posts in the local government, including selectman, constable, tythingman, and grand juror.[5] He married Ann Bullard about 1648.[6] The couple had fourteen children, all born in Cambridge:[7]
- John (1649–1650)
- Hannah (1651–1728), baptized as Anne, married Samuel Oldham
- Samuel (1653–1653)
- Jacob (1654–1698), married Patience Sabin
- Joseph (1656–1700), married Mary Gobell. Abiah's twin brother.
- Abiah (1656–1668), Joseph's twin brother.
- Benjamin (1660–1738), married Mary Buckminster.
- Elizabeth (1662–1702), married Daniel Woodward. Unlike her siblings, she moved to Connecticut.
- Daniel (1663–1749), married Naomi Croswell. Most of the famous Danas of Massachusetts come from Daniel Dana.
- Deliverance (1667–1741), married Samuel Hyde.
- Sarah (1669–1669)
Notable Danas descended from Richard Dana[edit]
- Amasa Dana (1792-1867), US Representative
- Charles A. Dana (philanthropist) (1881–1975): businessman, politician, philanthropist, founder of the Dana Foundation and Dana Holding Corporation
- Charles Anderson Dana (1819–1897): journalist, author, assistant Secretary of War (1864-1866)
- Charles Loomis Dana (1852–1935): neurologist at Cornell Medical College
- Charles R. Dana (1802–1868): Mormon leader and politician
- Charles S. Dana (1862–1939): Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives
- Daniel Dana (1771–1859): president of Dartmouth College
- Edmund Trowbridge Dana (1818–1869): jurist
- Edward Salisbury Dana (1849–1935): mineralogist, physicist
- Francis Dana (1743–1811): member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Articles of Confederation
- Henry Dana (1820-1852): established the Native Police Corps of the Port Phillip District (later Victoria )
- James Dana (clergyman) (1735–1812): pastor of the First Church in New Haven
- James Dana (mayor) (1811–1890): mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts
- James Dwight Dana (1813–1895): geologist, mineralogist, zoologist, volcanologist
- John Cotton Dana (1856–1929): librarian and museum director
- John W. Dana (1808–1867): Governor of Maine
- Joseph Dana (1742–1827): clergyman
- Judah Dana (1772–1845): US Senator
- Lowell Dana (1891–1937): college football coach
- Napoleon J.T. Dana (1822–1905): American general during the Civil War and the Mexican–American War
- Olive E. Dana (1859–?): author
- Paul Dana (journalist) (1852–1930): journalist
- Richard Dana (lawyer) (1699–1772): colonial Boston politician, a founder of the Sons of Liberty
- Richard Henry Dana Sr. (1787–1879): lawyer, poet, critic
- Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815–1882): lawyer, politician, author (Two Years Before the Mast)
- Richard Henry Dana III (1851–1931): lawyer, civil service reformer, husband of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's daughter
- Samuel Dana (1767–1835): US Representative
- Samuel Dana (clergyman) (1739–1798): clergyman, judge, politician
- Samuel Luther Dana (1795–1868): chemist
- Samuel W. Dana (1760–1830): US Senator and US Representative
- William Goodwin Dana (1798-1858): Sea Captain
- William Parsons Winchester Dana (1833 -1927) International impressionist painter
Other notable descendants:
- Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944): graphic artist, created the "Gibson Girl"
- Samuel Dana Bell (1798–1868): politician and judge
- Samuel Newell Bell (1829–1889): US Representative
- William Dana Ewart (1851-1908): Inventor of the Link Belt and founder of the Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company
- Samuel Dana Greene (1839-1884) US Naval Officer
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Samuel Atkins Eliot (1913). A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913. Cambridge Tribune. p. 189.
- ^ Hannah Winthrop Chapter (1907). An Historic Guide to Cambridge. p. 165.
- ^ Sprague, W. B. (1866). The Life of Daniel Dana. Boston, MA: J. E. Tilton. pp. 269-273.
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- ^ Dana, Elizabeth Ellery (1956). The Dana Family in America. Wright & Potter Printing Company, 32 Derne Street, Boston. pp. 9–37.
- ^ Dana, Elizabeth Ellery (1956). The Dana Family in America. Wright & Potter Printing Company, 32 Derne Street, Boston. pp. 44–46.
- ^ Clarence Almon Torrey; Elizabeth Petty Bentley (1 January 1985). New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-8063-1102-9.
- ^ Dana, Elizabeth Ellery (1956). The Dana Family in America. Wright & Potter Printing Company, 32 Derne Street, Boston. pp. 48–52.