Daniel Dana

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". 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

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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]

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References

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  1. William Coombs Dana, The Life of Daniel Dana, D.D., J. E. Tilton, 1866, p. 32.
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