Dana, Richard Henry (1815-1882)
American lawyer and author, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He entered Harvard College in 1832, but suspended his studies in 1834 on account of the weakness of his eyes. He then shipped as a common sailor on a Pacific voyage, a record of which is given in is massive Two Years Before the Mast, a book of sailor life which has become a classic. He was graduated at Harvard, 1837; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840; in 1861, was United States attorney for Massachusetts; and, in 1867-68, was counsel for the United States government in the proceedings against Jefferson Davis. He published The Seaman's Friend and To Cuba and Back and edited Wheaton's International Law.
~ The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Volume 2, Thirty-Fifth Edition, 1972, Biography, Page 1780.
You can visit the memorial page for Richard Henry Dana.
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