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Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast and as an attorney who successfully represented the U.S. government before the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War in the Prize Cases.
Two Years Before the Mast. Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946.
Samuel W. Dana (1760–1830): US Senator and US Representative; William Goodwin Dana (1798-1858): Sea Captain; William Parsons Winchester Dana (1833 -1927) International impressionist painter; Other notable descendants: Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944): graphic artist, created the "Gibson Girl" Samuel Dana Bell (1798–1868): politician and judge
William H. Dana. William Harvey Dana (November 3, 1930 – May 6, 2014) was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force pilot, NASA test pilot, and astronaut. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA. He was also selected for participation in the X ...
Through his son Francis, he was the grandfather of Richard Henry Dana Sr., a lawyer, poet and literary critic, [8] and the great-grandfather of Edmund Trowbridge Dana (1818–1869) and Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815–1882), also a noted lawyer and author who served as U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts and wrote the classic Two Years Before the Mast.
William Henry Channing was born in Boston, Massachusetts.Channing's father, Francis Dana Channing, died when he was an infant, [citation needed] and responsibility for the young man's education was assumed by his uncle, William Ellery Channing, the pre-eminent Unitarian theologian of the early nineteenth century.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri 's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
Margaret Remington Dana (1830-43) Washington Allston ARA (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime for his experiments with dramatic subject matter and his bold use of ...