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Daniel Dana
The Rev. Daniel Dana (July 24, 1771 – August 26, 1859) was a minister in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and president of Dartmouth College from 1820 to 1821. He graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1788.
Biography.
Dana was reluctant to take on the presidency of an institution so recently embattled following the Dartmouth College case. He was finally convinced by the Trustees to become the fourth president in the Wheelock Succession in 1820. Plagued by ill health and exhausted by the strain of the
for the greater Cincinnati area, including southern Ohio and northern Kentucky. He died at his home in Fort Thomas, Kentucky on August 3, 1957 and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Auburn, Maine.
Early life.
Dana True Merrill was born in East Auburn, Maine on October 15, 1876, the son of Daniel Cummings Merrill and Mary Adelaide (Noyes) Merrill. His siblings included Elmer Drew Merrill, who was his twin. Merrill was educated in East Auburn, and graduated from the University of