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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 1: earlier years (search)
Erie Canal for a while, but soon gave it up to cultivate a small farm which he had bought near by. But misfortune still followed the family. Nearly the whole fell sick of the ague, at that time the scourge of every new #earlier years settlement in the country. The mother died, leaving four young children, Charles Anderson nine, Junius seven, Maria three years of age, and David a babe in arms. This loss made it necessary for the family to return to the home of Ann Denison's father near Guildhall in northeastern Vermont. Here the children were divided. Charles went to his uncle David Denison, who lived on a farm in the Connecticut River valley, while his brother and sister remained with their grandfather near by. The life was a healthful one, and Charles, being from the first an unusually bright boy, was sent to the neighborhood school which, as was then customary, was kept open during the winter months only. Fortunately the teacher was an undergraduate of a New England colle
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 2: education (search)
l fountain of gladness, and once in a while he comes out with a thought so beautiful and poetical that it makes you wonder how such a soul ever got into such a body. . . . On April 12, 1840, he wrote again to Barrett, but this time from Guildhall, Vermont, whither he had gone to save money and continue his studies: I am glad to see, in your account of miscellaneous reading, authors of such inoppugnable orthodoxy as Coleridge and Carlyle. To Coleridge, though I have read but a moiety oucydides, and find some dozen passages, despite all my labor, utterly untranslatable. If I cannot find a translation and you have a copy of the original, I'll send them down for your consideration. On August 18, 1840, Dana wrote again from Guildhall to his friend Barrett: After a week of pleasure at Hanover, I find myself once more on the hither side of the North Pole, in safety as I trust of both mind and body. To me withdrawal from my daily studies and occupations is an event tha
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
310-312, 315-339, 343,344,346-351,355-358, 364, 365, 369, 373-375, 377, 381, 382, 385-388, 394,395; elected president, 396, 398, 399, 402, 405-423, 426, 430-432, 438, 439, 446, 465, 469, 493. Greeley, Horace, 39, 40, 50, 60, 62, 97, 99, 100, 106, 108, 113, 115, 121,122, 127-131,141,142, 144-148, 151, 153, 160-162, 165, 166, 171, 175-177, 179, 213, 314, 397, 401, 408, 428-431. Greeley, Mrs., 40-42. Great Britain, 398, 471. Grenada, Mississippi, 209. Grinnell, Moses H., 407-409. Guildhall, Vermont, 21. Guiney's Station, 320. Gunpowder Bridge, 339. H. Hains, Peter C., 369. Haiti, 402, 419. Hale, John P., Senator, 153. Halleck, General-in-Chief, 191,192, 209, 234, 255, 271, 276, 298, 299, 300, 302, 310, 337, 342, 346, 351, 353, 363, 365, 367, 369. Halpine, Charles G., 194. Hammond, Senator, 153, 180. Hancock, General, 319-324, 328, 348, 450. Hankinson's Ferry, 220, 221. Hanover, 22. Harbinger, the, 34, 42, 47, 50, 51. Hard Times Landing, 217. Harker, Col