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The Life of Daniel Dana, D. D PRINCETON, N. J. '<# Library of Dr. A. A. Hodge. Presented. BX 9225 .D25 D36 1866 Dana, William Coombs, 1810- 1873. The life of Daniel Dana, D. , d**- •^C'.&P^ s * £*, ^4^-0 £&^ *y/^ , J^L^ ^ ^ Jq*. £~ t j, /£ £> &> i Coorr.'bs t)a^.a_ THE LIFE OF Daniel Dana, D.D. BY MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY. SKETCH OF HIS CHARACTER, W. B. SPRAGC/E, D.D. BOSTON: J. E. TILTON AND COMPANY. 1866. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 18ti(i, by J. E. TILTON & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Press op Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 3 Cornhill, Boston. PREFACE. This memoir was nearly ready for publication in the autumn of 1860. It is hence, in every respect, a relic of the past. The writer of most of these pages has attempted little more than a narrative of his father's life. What he was, appears from the testimony of others, and from his own writings. They who revered and loved him living will look with in- dulgent eye on this tribute to his memory — a simple column, to which another hand has added the Corinthian capital. W. C. D. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. 1771 — 1785. Ancestry. — Early Years 1 CHAPTER II. 1786 — 1788. College Life 7 CHAPTER III. 1788 — 1791. A Year at Hanovej. — Two Years at Exeter 18 CHAPTER IV. 1791 — 1793. Theological Studies at Ipswich. — Teaching. — Entrance on the Ministry 24 CHAPTER V. 1794. Commencement of his Ministry at Newburyport 32 CHAPTER VI. 1795 — 1800. Withdrawal of the Minority. — Pastoral Duties. — Yellow-fever.— Injury to his Eyes. — Success as a Peace-maker. — Marriage . 46 VI CONTENTS. CHAPTER VII. 1801 — 1806. Religious Excitement in Newburyport. — Rev. Mr. Milton. — Adelphi Society. — Publications. — Letters from Dr. Morse ... 56 CHAPTER VIII. 1807 — 1812. Origination of the Theological Seminary at Andover. — Presbyterian General Assembly, 1810 and 1812. — Visit to Washington and Mount Vernon. — A House of Mourning 05 CHAPTER IX. 1813 — 1820. General Assembly of 1814. — Death of Mr. Coombs. — Publications. — Connection with various Societies. — Marriage. — Pastoral Labors.— Bereavements 87 CHAPTER X. 1820 — 1821. Election to the Presidency of Dartmouth College. — Removal to New- Hampshire 98 CHAPTER XI. 1821 — 1826. Four Years and a half at Londonderry, N.H 109 CHAPTER XH. 1826 — 1837. Return to Newburyport. — Ordination at Ipswich— General Assem- bly of 1827. — Death of Dr. Joseph Dana. — Revivals. — New Divinity. — Strictures on Radicalism in the Pulpit. — Election Sermon 134 — CONTENTS. vii CHAPTER XIII. 1837 — 1844. Division of the Presbyterian Church. — Suffering from his Eyes. Anniversary at Exeter. — Letters to Professor Stuart. — Fiftieth Anniversary of his Ordination 155 CHAPTER XIV. 1845—1853. Portrait. — Life at Home. — Personal Traits. — Resignation of the Pastoral Office. — Ministry at large. — Ordination at Belleville. Sermon. — Daniel Webster. — Remonstrance addressed to the Trustees of Phillips Academy 178 CHAPTER XV. 1854 — 1859. His last Years. — Celebration at Newburyport. — His last Publication. Resignation of his Seat in the Andover Board. — Centennial at First Presbyterian Church. — Installation at Second Presbyterian Church. — State of Health. — Interview with the Presbytery. — His Death 21C CHAPTER XVI. 1859. Funeral Services. — Tributes to his Memory 237 RECOLLECTIONS OF DR. DANA. By W. B. Sprague, D.D. 250 APPENDIX. THE DANA FAMILY. — PUBLICATIONS THE LIFE DANIEL DANA, D.D. CHAPTER I. 1771-1785. Axcestry. — Early Years. About twenty years after the landing at Plymouth, Richard Dana, whose father had left France in con- sequence of the persecution^ against the Huguenots, came from England to this country. He married and settled -at Cambridge, Mass. His eldest son (who died in infancy) was born in 1649. On record is a deed of land sold by him April 20, 1656. His mem- bership, and that of his wife, in the Cambridge Church, was as early as 1660. At an advanced age, he died suddenly at Cambridge, April 2, 1690. It appears, from the Probate Records of Middlesex, that he left no will, and that his estate was settled by ^agreement, signed April 16, 1691, by his widow, four sons, and three sons-in-law. From Richard Dana are descended, as is supposed, all of the name in this country (with slight exception). Through him it would seem that a Huguenot origin might be definitely assigned to the family. But some imagine — as the name is found on both sides of the l 2 ANCESTRY. channel — that Richard was descended from William Dane (or Dana), Sheriff of Middlesex, in the reign of Elizabeth, whose coat of arms (the motto, "Cavendo Tutus") may edify those of easy faith in such mat- ters. What Richard Dana's motto was, or whether he had any, may be doubtful : we can more easily tell what it might have been. " TJbi libertas ibi patria " suits well his history. Of the four sons of Richard who survived him, Ben- jamin, born 1660, who died at Brighton (then Cam- bridge), was the father of Joseph, born A.D. 1700, who lived for some time in Pomfret, Conn., and is called "Joseph Dana of Pomfret," in several deeds of land about the middle of the last century. He died at Lebanon, N.H. He was grandson of Richard, and grandfather of Daniel Dana. His son, Joseph Dana, D.D., of Ipswich, Mass. — born Nov. 13, 1742, gradu- ated at Yale College, 1760 — was sixty-two years pas- tor of the South Church in that town. Daniel, second son of Joseph and Mary (Staniford) Dana, was born at Ipswich, July 24, 1771. His mother died when he was not a year old. How tenderly her place was after a time supplied, appears from incidental allusions in later years. The thought of her whom he ; 1 never known was kept alive by the remark, some- times made to him in his childhood, "I should know you, Daniel, from your resemblance to your dear mother." * * She was step-daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich. She died May 14, 1772, in her twenty-eighth year. That she was lovely and beloved, appears in a letter still extant, occasioned by her death, from " Joseph Dana of Pomfret," then living at Ashford, to his sou at Ipswich. The letter breathes a deeply religious spirit. — EARLY YEARS. 6 Years ago, aged persons in Ipswich spoke of him as one who " was never a boy." One incident, however, may slightly modify this judgment. Usually a model of filial duty, he, nevertheless, one day when there was no school, left his home, sponte sua, — no leave asked, and strolled away to the Farms, an attractive part of his father's parish. To the subsequent paternal inter- rogatory, "But why did you not ask leave?" the naive answer was, " Because I didn't think you would give me leave." It was in keeping with the history of one, who, from the beginning to the end of his long pilgrim- age, was truth fulness itself. His love of music was early developed. Whilst yet so young as to drop the r in " trouble," and put d for j in "joy," he would sing (in unconscious prophecy), " Through all the changing scenes of life, In trouble ami in joy, The praises of my God shall still My heart and tongue employ." When eight years old, he commenced studying Latin ; the next year, he began with Greek. At twelve, he was reading "Seneca's Morals" as a pastime. At that time (1781-1783), the sessions ofthe Supreme Court at Ipswich were attended by Rufus King, who became a great object of admiration to the young student of Cicero. To hear him plead was more attractive than any recreation. He thought, that, if any modern orator resembled the great Roman, it must be Rufus King. Shakspeare was an early favorite. He felt the charm of that sublime, all-comprehending genius ; whilst what- ever was morally objectionable found in his pure mind nothing to adhere to. Many were the noble senti- 4 EARLY YEARS. merits and choice expressions made familiar at this early period, to be reproduced in after years. One of these that recurs to memory might have been taken as the motto of his life : — "Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, thy God's, and truth's." How genial were the influences of home, how nutri- tive to mind and heart the atmosphere of his father's house, those can best understand who remember the venerable pastor at Ipswich. When Dr. Joseph Dana was eighty years of age, his appreciation of the Latin classics was still perfect, More than one of his grand- children, domiciled with him in childhood, can vividly recall the enthusiasm with which he inspired them in the study of Virgil and Cicero, and the singularly happy art with which he sought to waken into life the germs, not only of literary taste, but of noble and gen- erous moral sentiment. The story of Sinon was made to render more impassioned the detestation of cunning and treachery; the episode of Nisus and Euryalus, and similar passages, were brought home in their pa- thetic power to the feelings ; but admiration of the great poet was always to stop short of any tolerance for the barbarous pugilism of Dares and Entellus, which drew forth only indignant protest.* So, too, what- ever in the great orator was below the standard of * That his own moral training had been not dissimilar, appears from an incident once related by him of his childhood. An unseasonable fall of snow had driven some quails to take refuge, through the open door, in his father's house at Pomfret.
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