Damrosch (II)
WALTER JOHANNES, an American musician; born in Breslau, Prussia, in 1862; son of DR. LEOPOLD DAMROSCH (q. v.). He became a citizen of the United States in 1871. He inherited the musical talent of his father, and succeeded him in his enterprises. He was the special exponent of the Wagnerian school of music, and conducted operatic performances in all the large cities, proving himself most acceptable a He also composed an opera leader. founded on Hawthorne's e's tale of "The Scarlet Letter," besides other excellent music. He married in 1890 Margaret, daughter of James G. Blaine. In 1903 he reorganized as a permanent orchestra the New York Symphony Orchestra to the leadership of which he devoted himself exclusively since then and which he put in the forefront of symphony orchestras. The entire orchestra made a highly successful tour of France and England in 1920. During the World War he reformed the military bands of the A. E. F. and founded a school for bandmasters at General Headquarters, Chaumont, France.
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Damrosch (LEOPOLD a German musician born)
LEOPOLD, a German musician; born in Posen, Prussia, Oct. 22, 1832; graduated with high honors from the University of Berlin, and began the practice of medicine; but his love for music predominated, and in 1864 he gave up his medical profession and started on a tour as violinist. He met with great success and on his return to Posen was appointed musical director at the Stadt-Theater. He subsequently held a similar post in Breslau. Coming to the United States, he was made leader of the Arion Society in New York, and subsequently founded the Oratorio and Symphony societies of that city. He died Feb. 15, 1885.
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Dan
one of the sons of Jacob by his concubine Bilhah. At the time of the exodus the Danites numbered 62,700 adult males, being then the second tribe in point of numbers. Samson was a member of this tribe.
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Dana
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.
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Dana (II)
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.
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Dana (III)
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."
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Dana (IV)
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.
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Dana (V)
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.
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Dana, Charles A.
Charles A. (1819-1897), an eminent American journalist. He received his education at Harvard. He became a member of the famous Brook Farm Community, and was associated with George Ripley and Parke Godwin in the editorship of the Harbinger. In 1847 he was made managing editor of the New York Tribune, a position which he held up to the time of the Civil War. In the meanwhile he colabored with Ripley in projecting and editing Appleton's American Encyclopedia in sixteen volumes. During the Civil War he was for a time assistant secretary of war. His was a busy, useful life, but he is remembered chiefly as editor of the New York Sun from 1868 onward. He belongs to the group of noted New York editors, including Greeley and Bryant. His editorials were noted for brilliancy; but toward the end he fell into a bitter partisan, pessimistic vein, seeming to think the world going wholly wrong. He failed on that account to retain his influence.
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