Dana

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noun

a masculine and feminine name

  1. Dana, Charles Anderson 1819-97; U.S. newspaper editor
  2. Dana, James Dwight 1813-95; U.S. geologist & mineralogist
  3. Dana, Richard Henry 1815-82; U.S. writer & lawyer

See Dana in American Heritage Dictionary 4

American lawyer and writer best known for his Two Years Before the Mast (1840), an account of his voyage from Boston to California around Cape Horn.

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