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Dana, Mrs. Katharine

author, was born in 1835 in Long Island, N. Y.

She was a writer of New York city; and the author of Our Phil and Other Stories.

She died in 1886.

DANA, NAPOLEON JACKSON TE- CUMSEH, soldier, was born April 15, 1822, in Eastport, Maine. Here is a man who was discovered after the battle of Cerro Gordo lying on the field, and men were digging his grave, when a fellow-officer examined him and discovered he breathing. He was also carried off the field of Antietam for dead, but recovered and fought again. He is a resident of Washington, D. C., still hale and hearty. was

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