James Dwight 1813-1895 American geologist
Jr (1815-1882) US author and lawyer. He went to sea and worked for his passage around Cape Horn to California and back, then wrote an account of the journey Two Years before the Mast 1840. He also published The Seaman’s Friend 1841, a guide to maritime law.
(1819-1897) US journalist who covered the European revolutions of 1848 and earned a reputation as one of America’s most able foreign correspondents. During the US Civil War he served as assistant secretary of war 1863–65 and in 1868 purchased the New York Sun, with which he pioneered the daily tabloid format.
Born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, and educated at Harvard, Dana left college before graduating to become manager of Brook Farm, an experimental community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1841–47. After its breakup he embarked on a journalistic career and became city editor of the New York Tribune 1847.
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