Edmund Trowbridge Dana

Edmund Trowbridge Dana Jr. (29 August 1818, in Cambridge, Massachusetts – 18 May 1869, in Cambridge, Massachusetts)[1] was an American lawyer and author.[2][3][4]

Dana family plot in Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, Massachusetts

He is not to be confused with Edmund Trowbridge Dana (1779–1859), artist, and Edmund "Ned" Trowbridge Dana III (1886–1981), grandson of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Biography

He was born at Cambridge to Richard H. Dana Sr. and Ruth Charlotte Smith Dana, in one of the preeminent colonial family of New England that settled in Massachusetts around 1640.[5] He was the younger sibling of Ruth Dana, known as "Charlotte" to her family (1814-1901)[6] and Richard Henry Dana Jr.,[7] and a nephew of Judge Edmund Trowbridge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts.

He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1839, and at Cambridge Law School in 1841. Subsequently he practiced law in partnership with his brother, Richard Henry Dana Jr., in Boston for several years.[8] Failing health compelled him to reside in Europe, where he continued his studies, devoting special attention to Roman civil law, and to history and philosophy in their bearings upon law.[9]

In 1854 he received the degree of J.U.D. from the University of Heidelberg, and returned to the United States two years later. He wrote occasionally for periodicals, and attempted the translation of the works of Von Mohl, with whom he was personally acquainted, and other German jurists.[9] His other literary work included original poetry, essays, printed lectures, and translations from Greek and Latin.[7] During his last years, he assisted his brother in preparing the new edition of Wheaton's Elements of International Law.[2]

His personal papers, correspondence, writings, legal and financial records are preserved in five series at Northeast Museum Services Center (NMSC), National Park Service, Charlestown, Massachusetts.[7]

References
  1. Dana Family Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
  2. OBITUARY.; Death of Edmund Trowbridge Dana, The New York Times, June 10, 1869
  3. Brown, John Howard, and Johnson, Rossiter. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Biographical Society, 1904.
  4. Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-Five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States. Chicago, Ill: American Publishers' Association, 1909.
  5. Eliot, Samuel A. Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State. Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Biographical Society, 1913
  6. Ruth Charlotte Dana - Obituary, Cambridge Chronicle, 28 September 1901
  7. Finding Aid for the Dana Family Papers, Northeast Museum Services Center (NMSC), National Park Service, Charlestown, MA
  8. Spooner, W. W. One line of the Dana family, The American Historical Magazine, November 1906, Volume 1, No. 6, p. 474
  9. Wilson & Fiske 1900.

Attribution

  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Dana, Edmund Trowbridge" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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