Paul Dana | |
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Born | |
Died | April 7, 1930 New York City, New York, U.S. | (aged 77)
Alma mater | Harvard University Columbia Law School |
Occupation(s) | Journalist Newspaper editor |
Spouse | |
Children | Janet Percy Dana Anderson Dana William Butler Duncan Dana |
Parent(s) | Charles Anderson Dana Eunice MacDaniel |
Relatives | Ruth Draper (niece) |
Paul Dana (August 20, 1852 – April 7, 1930) was an American journalist and editor of the New York Sun.[1]
Dana was born in New York City on August 20, 1852. He was the son of Charles Anderson Dana (1819–1897) and Eunice (née MacDaniel) Dana (1824–1903).[1] His sister, Ruth (née Dana) Draper, was the mother of Ruth Draper, the celebrated stage actress.[2]
He graduated from Harvard University, with an A.B., in 1874 and Columbia Law School, with an LL.B., in 1878,[3] and was admitted to the Bar shortly thereafter.[1]
In 1880, he joined the staff of the New York Sun and in 1897 succeeded his father as editor. He retired in 1903.[3] His office was at 170 Nassau Street.[4] During World War I, he was stationed at Namur from May to June, 1915 as a member of the Committee for Relief in Belgium.[1]
In 1890, he was appointed a commissioner of the New York City Department of Public Parks by mayor Hugh J. Grant.[5] Dana served on the park board until his resignation in 1894,[6] because the other commissioners refused to hire a landscape architect.[5]
In 1892, Dana and his wife were both included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.[7]
Dana was a member of the University Club, the Racquet and Tennis Club, the Harvard Club, and the Rockaway Hunt Club. For many years, he had a home on Dosoris Island, near Glen Cove, which his father had owned the entirety of.[1]
On November 11, 1884, he was married to Mary Butler Duncan (1861–1922).[8] She was the daughter of William Butler Duncan I (1830–1912) and Jane Percy Sargent (1833–1905), herself the daughter of George Washington Sargent. Mary was also the cousin and adoptive sister of William Butler Duncan II, a New York City yachtsman.
After the death of his wife in 1922, Paul Dana lived at the University Club in New York.[1]
Dana died at Doctors Hospital on April 7, 1930, in New York City.[1] After a service at Grace Church in Manhattan, he was buried at St. Paul's Cemetery in Glen Cove on Long Island.[21] He left his estate to his children.[22]