Dana, Charles Anderson

N. H., 1819-1897. A distinguished journalist of New York City. He was a istant secretary of war 1863-65, and since 1868 the editor of The New York Sun. His political writing is noted for its bitter partisanship, but the literary quality of his work is admirable. With J. G. Wilson, infra, he prepared a Life of General Grant, and was co-editor with George Ripley, infra, of the American Cyclopædia. The Household Book of Poetry was edited by him. Ap.