biography
| name: |
Dana, Charles A(nderson)
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pronunciation:
[dayna]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1819–97)
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| biography:
| Newspaper editor, born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, USA. He spent two years at Harvard, and was a member of the Brook Farm community (1841–6) with George Ripley. He edited the New York Tribune (1848–62), which opposed the extension of slavery to new territories. From 1863 to the close of the Civil War he was assistant-secretary of war. In 1867 he purchased the New York Sun, and successfully managed it on democratic lines. With George Ripley he edited the New American Cyclopaedia (1857–63) and the American Cyclopaedia (1873–6). |
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