Edmund Trowbridge Dana

Edmund Trowbridge Dana Jr. (29 August 1818, in Cambridge, Massachusetts – 18 May 1869, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer and author. He is not to be confused with Edmund Trowbridge Dana (1779–1859), artist, and Edmund "Ned" Trowbridge Dana III (1886–1981), grandson of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Biography He was born at Cambridge to Richard H. Dana Sr. and Ruth Charlotte Smith Dana, in one of the preeminent colonial family of New England that settled in Massachusetts around 1640. He was the younger sibling of Ruth Dana, known as "Charlotte" to her family (1814-1901) and Richard Henry Dana Jr., and a nephew of Judge Edmund Trowbridge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1839, and at Cambridge Law School in 1841. Subsequently he practiced law in partnership with his brother, Richard Henry Dana Jr., in Boston for several years. Failing health compelled him to reside in Europe, where he continued his studies, devoting special attention to Roman civil law, and to history and philosophy in their bearings upon law.