Dana
Dana names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Dana CHARLES ANDERSON, an American journalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES ANDERSON, an American journalist; born in Hinsdale, N. H., Aug. 8, 1819. He entered Harvard in 1839, but did not graduate. In 1842 he was a member of the Brook Farm Community, in Roxbury, Mass., remaining there only two years. From 1844 to 1847 he edited "The Harbinger," his associates being George Ripley, Parke Goodwin, and John S. Dwight. In 1847 he became managing editor of the New York "Tribune," with which he remained until 1861. In 1855, in connection with George Ripley, he projected and edited Appleton's "American Encyclopædia" in 16 volumes, which was completed in 1863, and revised in 1873-1877. He also edited a number of other works. From 1862 to 1865 he was in the service of the United States Government, during the last two years as Assistant Secretary of War under President Lincoln. About the beginning of 1866 he became editor of the Chicago "Republican," a daily paper. In 1868 he purchased an interest in the New York "Sun," also a daily, of which he was editor and chief proprietor until his death, Oct. 17, 1897. He was a man of forcible character and impressed his personality upon his paper.
Dana JOHN COTTON, an American librarian and author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN COTTON, an American librarian and author. He was born in Woodstock, Vt., in 1856, was educated at Dartmouth College, and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1883. He did not practice law, but after some years of land-surveying in Colorado he finally became librarian at Denver in 1889. He then made library organization his study and greatly improved the efficiency of the city libraries in Springfield, Mass., and Newark. N. J. He was president of the American Library Association in 1896 and his works on library subjects include: "A Library Primer"; "Notes on Book-Binding for Libraries"; and several chapters in "Modern American Library Economy." He was also co-editor of: "Literature of Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (6) vols.); "Horace, the Roman Poet, Presented to Modern Readers"; "Copa: the Hostess of the Inn."
Dana RICHARD HENRY, the Elder
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD HENRY, the Elder, an American poet and essayist; born in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 15, 1787. His lectures on Shakespeare's characters, delivered in the principal cities of the Atlantic coast (1839-1840), awakened a deep public interest. His principal poems are: "The Change of Home" (1824); "The Dying Raven" (1825); "The Buccaneers" (1827). To a periodical publication "The Idle Man" (N. Y., 1821-1822), of which he was editor, he contributed critical papers and several short stories; among them "Paul Fenton" and "Edward and Mary." He died Feb. 2, 1879.
Dana RICHARD HENRY, JR., an American lawyer and author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD HENRY, JR., an American lawyer and author; born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 1, 1815. He was perhaps best known as a writer through his book "Two Years Before the Mast," in which he described his voyage to California. He contributed to various papers and magazines and wrote some other books. He studied law under Judge Story and Professor Greenleaf, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He died in Rome, Italy, Jan. 6, 1882.
Dana JAMES DWIGHT, an American scientist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES DWIGHT, an American scientist; born in Utica, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1813. His researches into geology made him famous, and his professorship at Yale proved epoch-making in the his tory of that seat of learning. He published: "System of Mineralogy"; "Manual of Mineralogy"; "Text-Book of Geology"; "Corals and Coral Islands"; "The Geological Story Briefly Told"; etc. He died in New Haven, April 14, 1895.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote up John Cotton Dana in 1921 as a living librarian; he died in 1929, and he is remembered today less for "A Library Primer" than as the founder of the Newark Museum (1909) and as a pioneer of the activist, community-facing public library — the American Library Association's award for library public relations still bears his name. Charles A. Dana's New York "Sun," which Collier's says he stamped with his personality, lost its independence in the mid-20th century when it was merged into the World-Telegram, though his famous newsroom maxims outlived the paper. James Dwight Dana's mineralogy proved the most durable work of any Dana here: his classification remains the framework mineralogists use, and "Dana's System of Mineralogy" was carried forward by later editors into an eighth edition published in 1997, more than 150 years after the first. Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s "Two Years Before the Mast" is still read and reprinted, valued now as a first-hand record of Mexican California and of seamen's working conditions, while his father's poems, once popular enough to fill lecture halls, have all but vanished from the anthologies.
Written for this edition, 2026.