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DAN- 266 DANBURY black, bluish, dark purple, yellow, etc. The damson (corruption of Damascene), as its name imports, is from Damascus. DAN, one of the sons of Jacob by his concubine Bilhah. At the time of the exo- dus the Danites numbered 62,700 adult males, being then the second tribe in point of numbers. Samson was a member of this tribe. DANA, CHARLES ANDERSON, an American journalist; born in Hinsdale, N. H., Aug. 8, 1819. He entered Harvard in 1839, but did not graduate. In 1842 he was a member of the Brook Farm Community, in Roxbury, Mass., remain- ing there only two years. From 1844 to 1847 he edited "The Harbinger," his as- sociates being George Ripley, Parke Good- win, and John S. Dwight. In 1847 he be- came managing editor of the New York "Tribune," with which he remained until 1861. In 1855, in connection with George Ripley, he projected and edited Apple- ton's "American Encyclopaedia" in 16 volumes, which was completed in 1863, and revised in 1873-1877. He also edited a number of other works. From 1862 to 1865 he was in the service of the United States Government, during the last two years as Assistant Secretary of War under President Lincoln. About the be- ginning of 1866 he became editor of the Chicago "Republican," a daily paper. In 1868 he purchased an interest in the New York "Sun," also a daily, of which he was editor and chief proprietor until his death, Oct. 17, 1897. He was a man of forcible character and impressed his per- sonality upon his paper. DANA, JAMES DWIGHT, an Ameri- can scientist; born in Utica, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1813. His researches into geology made him famous, and his professorship at Yale proved epoch-making in the his- tory of that seat of learning. He pub- lished: "System of Mineralogy"; "Man- ual of Mineralogy"; "Text-Book of Geol- ogy"; "Corals and Coral Islands"; "The Geological Story Briefly Told"; etc. He died in New Haven, April 14, 1895. DANA, JOHN COTTON, an American librarian and author. He was born in Woodstock, Vt., in 1856, was educated at Dartmouth College, and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1883. He did not practice law, but after some years of land-surveying in Colorado he finally be- came librarian at Denver in 1889. He then made library organization his study and greatly improved the efficiency of the city libraries in Springfield, Mass., and Newark, N. J. He was president of the American Library Association in 1896 and his works on library subjects in- clude: "A Library Primer"; "Notes on Book-Binding for Libraries" ; and several chapters in "Modem American Library Economy." He was also co-editor of: "Literature of Libraries in the Seven- teenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (6 vols.) ; "Horace, the Roman Poet, Pre- sented to Modern Readers"; "Copa: the Hostess of the Inn." DANA, RICHARD HENRY, the Elder, an American poet and essayist; born in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 15, 1787, His lectures on Shakespeare's character s. delivered in the principal cities of the At- lantic coast (1839-1840), awakened a deep public interest. His principal poems are : "The Change of Home" (1824); "The Dying Raven" (1825) ; "The Buccaneers" (1827) . To a periodical publication "The Idle Man" (N. Y., 1821-1822), of which he was editor, he contributed critical papers and several short stories; among them "Paul Fenton" and "Edward and Mary." He died Feb. 2, 1879. DANA, RICHARD HENRY, JR., an American lawyer and author; born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 1, 1815. He was perhaps best known as a writer through his book "Two Years Before the Mast, in which he described his voyage to California. He contributed to various papers and magazines and wrote some other books. He studied law under Judge Story and Professor Greenleaf, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He died in Rome, Italy, Jan. 6, 1882. DANAKIL (da-na-kel'), (singular Dankali), the Arabic and now general name for the numerous nomad and fisher tribes inhabiting the coast of N. E. Africa, from Massowah S. to Tajurrah Bay, and from there S. W. to Shoa. They belong to the Ethiopic Hamites, and are well built and slender, with features in- dicating an intermixture of Arab blood. In a country of waterless plains, they are generally nomads, living partly by caravan traffic and the slave-trade, but mostly on the milk of their flocks. DANBURY, a city and one of the county-seats of Fairfield co.. Conn.; on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 62 miles N. E. of New York. It is the greatest hat-making city in the United States. It has also extensive manufactures of iron, brass, and silver- plated ware, bicycles, paper, foundry and machine shop products, etc. There are a court house, public library, State nor- mal school, high school public parks, electric street railways and lights. Sol- diers' Monument, 2 National banks, daily and weekly newspapers, etc. A temporary settlement was made here in 1684, a meeting-house was erected in 1696, and for many years the place was known by