Daniel Dana

Daniel Dana
4th President of Dartmouth College
In office 1820–1821
Preceded by	Francis Brown
Succeeded by	Bennet Tyler
Personal details
Born	(1771-07-24)July 24, 1771 Ipswich, Massachusetts
Died	August 26, 1859(1859-08-26) (aged 88) Newburyport, Massachusetts

The Rev. Daniel Dana (July 24, 1771 – August 26, 1859) was a minister in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and president of Dartmouth College from 1820 to 1821. He graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1788.

Biography

Dana was reluctant to take on the presidency of an institution so recently embattled following the Dartmouth College case. He was finally convinced by the Trustees to become the fourth president in the Wheelock Succession in 1820. Plagued by ill health and exhausted by the strain of the presidency, he resigned just one year later.

Works

• The public characters of 1798 (1798) (contributor)
• Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women: Who Were Ornaments to their Sex---Blessings to their Families---and Edifying Examples to the Church and World (1803)
• The Deity of Christ (1810)
• Hints on Reading: An Address Delivered in the Ipswich Female Seminary, January 15, 1834 (1834)
• Letters to the Rev. Professor Stuart: Comprising Remarks on his Essay on Sin, Published in the American Biblical Repository for April and July, 1839 (1839)
• The New Song :A Sermon, Delivered in Bowdoin-Street Church, Boston (1849)

External links

• Article posted with permission from Dartmouth College