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CHARLES FREDERICK DAflBMANN, merchant, a native of Wiesbaden, Ger¬
many, died June 26, 1868, in this city, at the age of fifty-five. The family had made
their home in Wiesbaden for generations and were reputable traders and merchants.
The subject of this memoir might have made his mark in the fatherland, because his
friends noted in him from youth the spirit of enterprise, clearness of vision and origin¬
ality of thought; but these very qualities led him, after a short experience in a mercan¬
tile clerkship, to come to America while a young man and seek the enlarged opportunities
of the new world. He was a born merchant, and after a modest beginning in New
York city, he established his own business, and in the firm of C. F. Dambmann & Co.,
importers of laces, velvets and kindred fabrics, won a pronounced success. The house
first occupied a store on Park Row, later on Franklin street. In due time, when large
means had come to him in consequence of the prudent and energetic prosecution of his
trade, he made numerous investments of his capital in corporations. Mr. Dambmann
was connected with The National Park Bank, various gas companies and other cor¬
porations, and aided in founding The Continental Insurance Co., and The Continental
Bank, being a director of both until his death. A well educated man, he joined'various
German societies and clubs, whose members esteemed him highly for his soundness of
judgment, well informed mind and probity. By his marriage with Sarah, daughter
of George Long, book publisher, he had four children, George John Adolph Damb¬
mann ; Louisa, wife of Gustave Cambefort, now living in Lyons; and Charles Frederick
William D. Dambmann, jr., a resident of Baltimore, Md., and another now deceased.

CHARLES ANDERSON DANA, editor of The New York Sun, was born in Hins¬
dale, N. H., Aug. 8, 1819. The first of the family, Jacob Dana, came from France
to Boston about 1640, in consequence of the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and
Daniel Dana, great grandfather of Charles, was killed in the massacre of Wyoming.
His father, a country merchant, failed while Charles was a boy, and the latter left
school at the age of ten. A year or two later, the youth began life in Buffalo as clerk
in a dr}^ goods store, where he stayed several years. Having fitted himself for college
under many discouraging circumstances, he entered Harvard in 1839 and remained
until the end of the sophomore year, when serious trouble with his eyes compelled him
to abandon the idea of finishing his college course.    Later he obtained his full degree.

In 1842, led by sentiment, Mr. Dana" became one of those philanthropic souls, who
engaged in the famous experiment at Brook Farm, being associated therein with
George Ripley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theodore Parker, Margaret Fuller, George
William Curtis, William Henry Channing and others, who afterwards rose to distinc¬
tion. These philosophers strove for a high plane of social and intellectual life, but
Mr. Dana was their only practical man and the experiment finally came to an end.

A close thinker, sound in his reasoning, and capable of expressing himself in
forcible larfguage, Mr. Dana, then at the age of twenty-seven, began writing for The
Chronotype of Boston, receiving during a year and a half the munificent salary of $5
a week He had had previous experience upon The Harbinger, devoted to reform and
general literature, and now learned the requirements of a daily newspaper.    In 1847,