Orleans

DANE, Walter Alden

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 163

Walter Alden DANE, lawyer, Newport, was born 04 February 1882 at Newport 
[Orleans County, Vermont], son of Olin Sidney and Mabel (ROBINSON) DANE. 
Educated at Newport High School, University of Vermont, and George Washington 
University Law School, Washington, D. C. Mr. DANE was an instructor at the 
Burr and Burton Seminary, Manchester [Bennington County, Vermont], 1903-1905. 
Republican; was card messenger, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., 
1905; private secretary to the assistant secretary of the navy, Washington, 
D. C., 1907, and served in this capacity and studied law until 1908, when he 
was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia. Was confidential 
secretary to the secretary of the navy, 1908, serving until the change of 
administration, 1909, when he was appointed private secretary to Hon. William 
P. DILLINGHAM, U. S. senator from Vermont. In 1909 he formed a law 
partnership with Hon. F. C. WILLIAMS, Newport [Orleans County]. Member of 
the National Geographic Society, and Delta Psi and Phi Beta Kappa 
fraternities. In 1907 Mr. [Walter Alden] DANE married [Miss?] Bertha A. 
ALDRICH of Cambridge [Middlesex County], Massachusetts; they have one 
daughter, Barbara.

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