Background
Dana was the son of Richard Henry Dana, Junior. He married in 1878, Edith Longfellow (1853–1915), the daughter of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Richard Richard Henry Dana III
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Dana graduated from Harvard University.
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They had four sons, Richard Henry Dana IV and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, Edmund Trowbridge Dana III, and another. In 1922 he remarried to Helen Ford Mumford (1865–1934). In 1874, he looked back on those years: "Days in college were happy-go-lucky times, even for the most studious and athletic."
Dana was the author of the Massachusetts Ballot Acting of 1888, the first state Australian ballot (secret ballot) act passed in the United States.
Some family financial records are held at the Houghton Library, Harvard, these include correspondence between Dana and William Penn Cresson, relating to the Cresson"s biography of Francis Dana.
A number of letters are in the Abernathy Collections at the Middlebury College library, though these may be by his father.
A substantial collection of family papers (including 293 bound volumes and 81 boxes) is held at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Family papers are also found at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library.
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American