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
The patriarch, Richard Dana (c.1620-1690) emigrated to New England and settled in Cambridge by 1640.[1][2] He served numerous posts in the local government, including selectman, constable, tythingman, and grand juror. He married Ann Bullard about 1648.[3] The couple had eleven children, all born in Cambridge:
- John (1649-1650)
- Hannah (1651-1728) 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
- Charles A. Dana (philanthropist) (1881-1975): businessman, politician, philanthropist, founder of the Dana Foundation and Dana Corporation
- Charles Anderson Dana (1819-1897): journalist, author, assistant Secretary of War (1864-1866)
- 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
- 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 Spanish-American War
- 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
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
See also
- First Families of Boston
- Dana disambiguation page
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.