Daniel Dana

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Francis Brown
Succeeded byBennet Tyler
Personal details
Born(1771-07-24)July 24, 1771
Ipswich, Massachusetts
DiedAugust 26, 1859(1859-08-26) (aged 88)
Newburyport, Massachusetts
Spouses
Elizabeth Coombs
(m. 1800)
Sarah Emery
(m. 1814)

Daniel Dana (July 24, 1771 – August 26, 1859) was an American

Presbyterian minister[1] in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and president of Dartmouth College
from 1820 to 1821. He graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1788.

Biography

Stained glass depiction of Dana in Dartmouth's Rollins Chapel

Daniel Dana was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts on July 21, 1771.[2]

He was married twice, to Elizabeth Coombs on December 30, 1800, and to Sarah Emery on November 8, 1814.[2]

Dana was reluctant to take on the presidency of an institution so recently embattled following the

Dartmouth College case. He was finally convinced by the Trustees to become the fourth president in the Wheelock Succession in August 1820. Plagued by ill health and exhausted by the strain of the presidency, he resigned less than a year later, in May 1821.[2]

He died in Newburyport on August 26, 1859.[2]

Works

References

  1. ^ William Coombs Dana, The Life of Daniel Dana, D.D., J. E. Tilton, 1866, p. 32.
  2. ^ a b c d The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. IX. James T. White & Company. 1907. p. 87. Retrieved November 23, 2020 – via Google Books.

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