History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . CHAKLtb Anderson Dana Charles Anderson Dana, editor; born in Hinsdale, N. H.,August 8, 1819; worked in a store in Buffalo, \. Y., when 18years old; studied Latin by himself and prepared himself forHarvard, entering in 1839, but leaving in 1841 on account ofeye trouble; afterward given bachelors and masters degrees;became a member of the Brook Farm colony in 1842 with(jeorge and Sophia Riple\, Cieorge William Curtis, NathanielHawthorne, Theodore Parker, William Henry Channing, Mar-garet Fuller and other philosophers; joined the sta
History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . CHAKLtb Anderson Dana Charles Anderson Dana, editor; born in Hinsdale, N. H.,August 8, 1819; worked in a store in Buffalo, \. Y., when 18years old; studied Latin by himself and prepared himself forHarvard, entering in 1839, but leaving in 1841 on account ofeye trouble; afterward given bachelors and masters degrees;became a member of the Brook Farm colony in 1842 with(jeorge and Sophia Riple\, Cieorge William Curtis, NathanielHawthorne, Theodore Parker, William Henry Channing, Mar-garet Fuller and other philosophers; joined the staff of theNew York Tribune in 1847 and remained as editor until April1, 1862; went to Albany in 1861 to advance the cause ofHorace Greeley for United States senate; employed by Secre-tary Stanton in special work for the war department, 1862;assistant secretary of war, 1864-1865; organized and becameeditor of the New York Sun, 1867, the first number appearingJanuarv 27, 1S68; died at (Hen Cove, L. I., October 17, Daniel Stevens Dickinson Daniel Stevens Dickinson; born in Ooshen, Conn., Septem-ber 11, 1800; moved with his parents to Chenango county,N. Y., in 1806; studied law and was admitted to the bar in1826; began practice in Binghamton, N. Y., in 1831; state sen-ator, 1837-1840; lieutenant governor, 1842; president of thesenate and president of the court of errors, 1842-1844; a presi-dential elector on the P(jlk ticket, 1844; appointed to the UnitedStates senate from New York to Hll the vacanc\ caused bythe resignation of Nathaniel P. Tallmadge and afterwardelected and served from November 30, 1844 to March 3, 1851;elected attorney general of New York state in 1861 ; CnitedStates district attorney for the southern district of New York;died in New York Citv, April 12, 1866. INTRODUCTION 25 little appointing power, for the heads of the great Statedepartments, including the Canal commissioners andthe Inspectors of Prisons, were elective. His controlover legislation was lim
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