Addison

DANA, Marvin Hill & Charles S.

Biography of Charles S. DANA [brother of Marvin H.]

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 93 
(portrait p 93)

Charles S. DANA, of New Haven, was born 13 September 1862 in New Haven 
[Addison County, Vermont], son of Hon. Edward S. and Mary (SQUIER) DANA. His 
father, Hon. E. S. DANA, was for many years assistant clerk of the National 
House of Representatives at Washington, one of the leading Free masons of the 
state, and served in both branches of the Legislature. Charles S. DANA 
follows the vocation of a farmer, and in connection with his mother is 
possessor of one of the finest estates in Vermont. He is also the owner of 
the largest private library in Addison County. He has acted as newspaper 
correspondent for many daily and weekly newspapers for a number of years, and 
has taken an active interest in politics since attaining his majority.

For six years Charles S. DANS was a member of the Republican town committee, 
has served as a delegate in state, district and county conventions, and 
enjoys the distinction of having been the youngest man ever elected in New 
Haven to be moderator of the annual town meeting. He was one of a committee 
of three to raise money to build the present Congregational church of that 
place. He was census enumerator in 1890.

In 1880 Mr. DANA was assistant doorkeeper of the Vermont state Senate, and 
assistant secretary of that body in 1890. He now holds the position of 
secretary of the Addison County Agricultural Society, and in 1893 was 
appointed a member of Company 19, Columbian Guards, at the World's Fair. Mr. 
DANA is a member of Union Lodge, No. 2, Free & Accepted Masons, and takes a 
lively interest in all matters pertaining to the agricultural, political, and 
moral welfare of Vermont.



Biography of Marvin Hill DANA [brother of Charles S.] 

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 93-94 
(portrait p 93)

Marvin Hill DANA, of Stillwater [Saratoga County], New York, was born 02 
March 1867 in Cornwall [Addison County, Vermont], son of Edward Summers and 
Mary Howe Squier DANA. Having obtained his preliminary education at Beeman 
Academy, he afterwards graduated at Middlebury College, the Sauveur School of 
Languages, the law department of Union University, and the General 
Theological Seminary in New York City. He also took a post graduate course 
at the University of New York. He received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. 
from Middlebury College and L. L. B. from Union University. After studying 
law in the office of Judge Lyman E. KNAPP, Mr. DANA practiced his profession 
in Missouri and Malone, New York, but was subsequently ordained in All 
Saints' Cathedral, Albany, by Bishop DOANE, 11 June 1893, and is now pastor 
of St. John's Episcopal Church, at Stillwater, New York.

As an author he has contributed to various periodicals, both in prose and 
verse, and has published a volume of poems entitled "Mater Christi and Other 
Poems," which has met with a ready and flattering sale. A volume of prose 
tales and sketches is soon to be issued. He has frequently been selected as 
class poet at the institutions where he has been a student, and he was chosen 
by the alumni of Middlebury College to deliver the annual poem at the 
commencement of 1894.

Mr. DANA possesses eminent musical ability and a marvelous memory, being 
able to repeat any list after once hearing or reading, and is distinguished 
as a linguist, reading, writing, and speaking English, German, French, 
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Latin, and Greek, and reading Hebrew, 
Syreac, and Romaic. He is the present head of the Society of St. Paul in 
America. In 1892 he was nominated councilor of the "American Institute of 
Civics,: and in 1893, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great 
Britain.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly