DANA, CHARLES ANDERSON (1819-1897), American journalist, was born in Hinsdale, N.H., on Aug. 8, 1819. In 1839 he entered Harvard, but the impairment of his eyesight in 1841 forced him to leave college. From Sept. 1841 until March 1846 he lived at Brook Farm (q.v.), where he was made one of the trustees. He had previously written for the Harbinger, the Brook Farm organ, and had written as early as 1844 for the Boston Chronotype. In 1847 he joined the staff of the New York Tribune, and in 1848 he wrote from Europe letters to it on the revolutionary movements of that year. Returning to the Tribune in 1849, he became its managing-editor, and in this capacity actively promoted the anti-slavery cause. In 1862 his resignation was asked for, apparently because of wide tempera mental differences between him and Greeley. Secretary of war Stanton immediately made him a special investigating agent of the war department ; in this capacity Dana spent much time at the front, and sent to Stanton frequent reports. He went through the Vicksburg campaign and was at Chickamauga and Chattanooga, and urged the placing of Gen. Grant in supreme command of all the armies in the field. In 1864-65 Dana was second assistant-secretary of war. He became the editor and part-owner of the New York Sun in 1868, and remained in control of it until his death. Under Dana's control the Sun opposed the impeachment of President Johnson ; it supported Grant for the presidency in 1868; it was a sharp critic of Grant as president; and in 1872 took part in the Liberal Republican revolt and urged Greeley's nomination. It favoured Tilden, the Democratic candidate for the presidency, in 1876, opposed the Electoral Commission and continually referred to Hayes as the "fraud president." In 1884 it supported Benjamin F. Butler, the candidate of Greenback-Labor and Anti-Monopolist parties, for the presidency, and opposed Blaine (Republican) and even more bitterly Cleveland (Democrat) ; it supported Cleveland and opposed Harrison in 1888, and in 1896, on the free-silver issue, it opposed Bryan, the Democratic candidate for the presi dency. Dana's literary style came to be the style of the Sun— simple, strong, clear, "boiled down." The Art of Newspaper Making, containing lectures which he wrote on journalism, was published in 1900. With George Ripley he edited The New American Cyclopaedia (1857-63), reissued as the American Cyclopaedia in 1873-76. He edited an anthology, The Household Book of Poetry (1857). Dana's Reminiscences of the Civil War was published in 1898, as was his Eastern Journeys, Notes of Travel. He died at Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y., on Oct. 17, See James Wilson, The Life of Charles A. Dana (1907) ; and Frank M. O'Brien, The Story of the "Sun," New York, 1833-1918 (1918).