Paul Dana (journalist)
Paul Dana (August 20, 1852 – April 7, 1930) was an American journalist and editor of the New York Sun.[1]
Paul Dana | |
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 An c. 1898 illustration of Dana | |
| Born | August 20, 1852 |
| Died | April 7, 1930 (aged 77) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Columbia Law School |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist Newspaper editor |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Janet Percy Dana Anderson Dana William Butler Duncan Dana |
| Parent(s) | Charles Anderson Dana Eunice MacDaniel |
| Relatives | Ruth Draper (niece) |
Early life
Dana was born in New York City on August 20, 1852. He was the son of Charles Anderson Dana (1819–1897) and Eunice (née MacDaniel) Dana (1824–1903).[1] His sister, Ruth (née Dana) Draper, was the mother of Ruth Draper, the celebrated stage actress.[2]
He graduated from Harvard University, with an A.B., in 1874 and Columbia Law School, with an LL.B., in 1878,[3] and was admitted to the Bar shortly thereafter.[1]
Career
In 1880, he joined the staff of the New York Sun and in 1897 succeeded his father as editor. He retired in 1903.[3] His office was at 170 Nassau Street.[4] During World War I, he was stationed at Namur from May to June, 1915 as a member of the Committee for Relief in Belgium.[1]
In 1890, he was appointed a commissioner of the New York City Department of Public Parks by mayor Hugh J. Grant.[5] Dana served on the park board until his resignation in 1894,[6] because the other commissioners refused to hire a landscape architect.[5]
Society life
In 1892, Dana and his wife were both included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.[7]
Dana was a member of the University Club, the Racquet and Tennis Club, the Harvard Club, and the Rockaway Hunt Club. For many years, he had a home on Dosoris Island, near Glen Cove, which his father had owned the entirety of.[1]
Personal life
On November 11, 1884, he was married to Mary Butler Duncan (1861–1922).[8] She was the daughter of William Butler Duncan I (1830–1912) and Jane Percy Sargent (1833–1905), herself the daughter of George Washington Sargent. Mary was also the cousin and adoptive sister of William Butler Duncan II, a New York City yachtsman.
- Janet Percy Dana (1886-1974),[9] who married Dr. Warfield Theobald Longcope (1877–1953), president of the American Association of Immunologists,[10][11] in 1915.[12] She exchanged many letters with her distant cousin, William Alexander Percy.[13]
- Anderson Dana (1889–1960),[14] who married Katryna Ten Broeck Weed (b. 1897), the daughter of George Standish Weed, in 1917.[15] They divorced in 1947.[16]
- William Butler Duncan Dana (1891–1930),[17] who married Anstiss Weston (1895–1979), daughter of Robert D. Weston, in June 1916.[18][19] Their daughter, Anstiss Dana, married Arthur M. Jones, Jr. in 1942.[20]
After the death of his wife in 1922, Paul Dana lived at the University Club in New York.[1]
Dana died at Doctors Hospital on April 7, 1930, in New York City.[1] After a service at Grace Church in Manhattan, he was buried at St. Paul's Cemetery in Glen Cove on Long Island.[21] He left his estate to his children.[22]
References
- "PAUL DANA DIES; EX-EDITOR OF SUN; Succeeded His Father, Charles A. Dana, in 1896 and Headed Paper Until 1903. WAS PARK BOARD MEMBER In World War Served on Commission for Relief In Belgium -- Was Early Motoring Enthusiast. Learned Under Father's Direction. Was Keen Sportsman". The New York Times. 8 April 1930. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "RUTH DRAPER, 72, MONOLOGIST, DIES; Famed Trouper Won Hearts of Audiences for 40 Years With One-Woman Show Refused New Material Tribute From Audience". The New York Times. 31 December 1956. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1913). Who's Who in America. Marquis Who's Who. pp. 511–512. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- Gordon, Ann D. (2013). The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: An Awful Hush, 1895 to 1906. Rutgers University Press. p. 262. ISBN 9780813553450. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- Olmsted, Frederick Law (2015). The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Last Great Projects, 1890–1895. JHU Press. p. 261. ISBN 9781421416038. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "PAUL DANA HAS RESIGNED; SAID HE COULD SERVE NO LONGER IN THE PARK BOARD. He Objected to the Opening of Bids for the Second Section of the Speedway Because Under the Washington Bridge There Was to be Only One Sidewalk -- The Law, He Said, Would Be Violated -- His Letter to the Mayor". The New York Times. 31 March 1894. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- McAllister, Ward (16 February 1892). "THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED – WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDERSTAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "DIED. Dana". The New York Times. 18 February 1922. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (1996). The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family. Oxford University Press. p. 362. ISBN 9780195109825. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "MRS. W. T. LONGCOPE". The New York Times. 2 June 1974. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "Troth Announced Of Miss Longcope; Descendant of Charles Dana Will Become the Bride of William F. Keyser". The New York Times. 9 April 1939. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "MISS JANET DANA WEDS DR. LONGCOPE; Only Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dana Is Married in Grace Church. COUSIN IS ONLY ATTENDANT Bride's Brothers Are Ushers ;- Reception at the Dana Residence ;- The Guests". The New York Times. 3 December 1915. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- Wise, Benjamin E. (2012). William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807869956. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "ANDERSON DANA, 70, DIES; Grandson of Dana of The Sun Headed Gravel Company". The New York Times. 10 February 1960. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- The Bulletin of the General Contractors Association. The Association. 1917. p. 278. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "Mrs. Anderson Dana Gets Decree". The New York Times. 19 September 1947. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "Duncan Dana Is Drowned Off Marblehead; Editor's Grandson Was Duck Hunting Alone". The New York Times. 7 December 1930. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "W. B. D. DANA ENGAGED.; Harvard Junior to Marry Miss Anstiss Weston of. Cambridge". The New York Times. 23 February 1914. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- Thayer, William Roscoe; Castle, William Richards; Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe; Pier, Arthur Stanwood; Voto, Bernard Augustine De; Morrison, Theodore (1917). The Harvard Graduates' Magazine. Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association. p. 148. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "Anstiss Dana Fiancee Of Arthur M. Jones Jr.; Kin of Charles A. Dana Will Be Bride of Harvard Alumnus". The New York Times. 29 March 1942. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "MANY AT FUNERAL OF PAUL DANA, EDITOR; Service of Grace Church on Broadway--Burial in St. Paul'sCemetery, Glen Cove". The New York Times. 10 April 1930. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "Children Get Dana Estate". The New York Times. 11 April 1930. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
Further reading
- O'Brien, Frank Michael. The Story of The Sun: New York, 1833-1918 (1918)
