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Deutsche Tonkiinstler-Verein, invited him to
conduct Dr. Leopold Damrosch"s compositions.
In 1890 he prepared a series of lecture-recitals
explanatory of Wagner's dramas, illustrated by
selections on the piano- forte. These he delivered
in many large cities in the United States. He
was married, May 17, 1890, to Margaret J.,
daughter of the Hon. James G. Blaine, secretary
of state in President Garfield's administration.
In December, 1894, he produced in New York
city, with the aid of the Symphony society, se-
lections from the original opera, ' ' The Scarlet
Letter" founded on Hawthorne's novel. This,
his first important composition, won favorable
notice from the critics, and was well received in
a subsequent operatic tour throughout the prin-
ciijal cities of the United States. On March 2,
1896, he began in New York a season of Wagner
opera, with a company- including Sucher,
Gadsky, Alvary, Brema and others who had
never before been heard in America. This tour
was so successful that Mr. Damrosch organized a
company for the following year on an even
larger scale, producing Wagner's " Ring of Nibe-
lungen," "Tristan und Isolde," and others,
travelling as far south as New Orleans and as
far west as Denver, Col. In 1898 he gradually
withdrew from his public duties, resigning from
the New York oratorio and symphony societies,
in order to devote himself more exclusively to
music composition. The first fruit of his retire-
ment was the "Manila Te Deum," written in com-
memoration of Dewey's victory at Manila Bay
in 1898. This work was produced with great
success and in the presence of hundreds of
United States army and navy ofiicers, by the
Oratorio society in New York, December, 1898,
and Jan. 10, 1899, in Philadelphia, under the
composer's personal direction. Mr. Damrosch
was elected, in 1890, a member of the Century
association, being one of the youngest members
of that society. Notable among his compositions
are: The Scarlet Letter (1894); 3IanUa Te Denm
(1898) ; Kipling's Barrack Boom Ballads, Danny
Deerer, MamlnJay, and others.
DANA, Alexander Hope, lawj-er, was born in Owego, N.Y., July 4, 1807; son of Judge Eleazer and Polly (Stevens), grandson of Anderson and Susanna (Huntington), great-grandson of Jacob and Abigail, great^ grandson of Jacob and Patience, and great ^ grandson of Richard Dana, who came from England to Cambridge, Mass., by or before 1640, and Anne Bullard, his wife. Tradition says that the family is of French descent. Alexander was graduated from Union college in 1824 and in 1828 was admitted to the bar, becoming a successful practitioner in New York city. He was married to Augusta Rad- cliffe. He is the author of all the articles on
legal subjects in the Xeio American Cyclopa'dia;
and of Ethical and Physiological Inquiries Belative
to Subjects of Popular Interest (1862) ; Inquiries on
Physiology, Ethics and Ethnology (1873) ; and Enig-
mas of Life and Death (1882). He died in Mont-
clair. N.i, Aprir27, 1887.
DANA, Amasa, representative, was born in Ithaca, N.Y., Oct. 19, 1792; son of Azael and Rebecca (Corey) Dana; grandson of Anderson and Susanna (Huntington) Dana, and cousin of Alexander Hope Dana. He vv-as admitted to the bar and practised law in Ithaca, N. Y. He repre- sented that city in the state assembly in 1828 and 1829, and his district in the 26th and 28th con- gresses, 1839-41, 1843-45. His wife was Mary Har- per Speed. He died at Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 24. 1867.
DANA, Charles Anderson, journalist, was born in Hinsdale, N.H., Aug. 8, 1819; son of An- derson and Ann (Dennison) Dana; grandson of the Hon. Daniel and Dolly (Kibbe) Dana; great-grandson of Anderson and Susanna (Hunt- ington) Dana; and second cousin of Alexander
Hope Dana. At an
early age he was taken to Buffalo, N.Y. ; later removed to Gaines, Orleans count}', N.Y., where he received his pri- mary school training, and in 1830 returned to Buffalo, where he clerked in a store till 1837, when his uncle, bj' whom he was em- ployed, failed in busi- ness. He then took ^^ / r> up the study of Latin C/ * *^y U^^-^CyK..-6c and in two years
prepared himself for college. He entered Harvard with the class of 1843 but was com- pelled to leave before the beginning of his junior year on account of an affliction of the eyes. He then joined the Brook Farm com- munity at West Roxbury, Mass., and there recovered the use of his eyes and at the same time gained an acquaintance with men and women of advanced thought. He was initiated into journalism at Brook Farm by working on the Harbinger and afterward on the Chronotype, published in Boston by Elizur Wright, which experience was his first school in the direction of reform of social inaccuracies. He was married in 1846 to Eunice, daughter of John Mac- daniel of Washington, D.C. In 1847 he removed to New York city to take a position on the staff of the Tribune as city editor. He spent eight months of 1848 in Europe as a newspaper corre- spondent and witness of the French revolution.
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