Edmund Trowbridge Dana, Jr. (29 August 1818, in

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– 18 May 1869, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer and author.OBITUARY.; Death of Edmund Trowbridge Dana
''The New York Times'', June 10, 1869 He is not to be confused with Edmund Trowbridge Dana (1779–1859), artist, and Edmund "Ned" Trowbridge Dana III (1886–1981), grandson of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Biography

He was born at

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to Richard H. Dana, Sr. and Ruth Charlotte Smith Dana, in one of the preeminent colonial family of New England that settled in Massachusetts around 1640. He was the younger sibling of Ruth Dana, known as "Charlotte" to her family (1814-1901)Ruth Charlotte Dana - Obituary
''Cambridge Chronicle'', 28 September 1901 and

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,Finding Aid for the Dana Family Papers
''Northeast Museum Services Center (NMSC), National Park Service, Charlestown, MA'' and a nephew of Judge

Edmund Trowbridge Edmund Trowbridge (1709 – April 2, 1793) was an American judge and lawyer. He is best known for being an associate justice for the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the highest court in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, during the B ...

of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. He graduated from the

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in 1839, and at Cambridge Law School in 1841. Subsequently he practiced law in partnership with his brother, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., in

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for several years.Spooner, W. W
One line of the Dana family
''The American Historical Magazine'', November 1906, Volume 1, No. 6, p. 474 Failing health compelled him to reside in

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, where he continued his studies, devoting special attention to

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civil law, and to history and philosophy in their bearings upon law. In 1854 he received the degree of J.U.D. from the

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, and returned to the United States two years later. He wrote occasionally for periodicals, and attempted the translation of the works of Von Mohl, with whom he was personally acquainted, and other German jurists. His other literary work included original poetry, essays, printed lectures, and translations from Greek and Latin. During his last years, he assisted his brother in preparing the new edition of Wheaton's

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. His personal papers, correspondence, writings, legal and financial records are preserved in five series at Northeast Museum Services Center (NMSC), National Park Service, Charlestown, Massachusetts.

References

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