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Richard Henry Dana Jr.
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born
August 01, 1815
died
January 06, 1882
gender
male
place of birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States
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Dana was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 1, 1815, into a family that first settled in colonial America in 1640. As a boy, Dana studied in Cambridgeport under a strict schoolmaster named Samuel Barrett, alongside fellow Cambridge native and future writer James Russell Lowell. Barrett was infamous as a disciplinarian, punishing his students for any infraction by flogging. He also often pulled students by their ears and, on one such occasion, nearly pulled Dana's ear off, causing his father to protest enough that the practice was abolished.
In 1825, Dana enrolled in a private school overseen by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who Dana later mildly praised as "a very pleasant instructor", though he lacked a "system or ...more
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""The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston..." "
— Richard Henry Dana Jr.
— Richard Henry Dana Jr.
""There is something in the clear blue warm sea of the tropics, which gives to the stranger a feeling of unreality.""
— Richard Henry Dana Jr.
— Richard Henry Dana Jr.
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