Dana << DAY nuh >>, Charles Anderson (1819-1897), editor and part owner of the New York Sun, built it into one of the most important newspapers of its time. Dana and his associates paid $175,000 for the Sun in 1868. Under his management its value rose to about $5 million. He made the Sun a witty, terse, and outspoken newspaper.
Dana was born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. He studied at Harvard University from 1839 to 1841. In 1841, he became a member of the Brook Farm Association, an experimental social community at West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and wrote for its publications, The Harbinger and The Dial (see Brook Farm). He joined the staff of the New York Tribune in 1847 and later became its managing editor. The Tribune dismissed Dana in 1862 because he disagreed with Tribune owner Horace Greeley about the newspaper’s stand on the Civil War. Dana served as an assistant secretary of war from 1863 to 1865.
