Essex

DANA, Daniel

Vermont Historical Magazine, No XI, October 1867, p 1007 (excerpt from a 
section on the history of Guildhall, Essex County)

Daniel DANA was from Connecticut, and came to this place [Guildhall, Essex 
County, Vermont] as early as 1800, as he held the office of chief judge of 
the [Essex] county court at its first organization in that year, and 
continued to fill the same ten years in all. [From p 1006: Daniel DANA was 
first chief justice of the county 1800-1807, 1809, 1813, and 1814.] He 
united with the Congregational church in 1803, and was chosen deacon in 1813; 
held many important town offices; was elected representative seven years in 
succession, and afterwards another year. He had a numerous family, none of 
whom are now residing in this vicinity, and finally removed to the state of 
New York, since which we have no particular knowledge of him. But two of his 
grandchildren are living in Maidstone [Essex County, Vermont]: Mrs. Mary 
Carlisle DEWEY, widow of Hon. John DEWEY; and Mrs. D. H. BEATTIE; and a 
grandson, Charles A. DANA, has been prominently connected with the literary 
department of the New York Tribune.

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