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Excerpt from Address at the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Town of Dana: August 22, 1901
Instructed and inspired by such a father, he had also the advantages, like that father, of a Harvard College educa tion. For five years Francis Dana studied at the law in the office of his maternal uncle, Judge Edmund Trowbridge, a celebrated lawyer in the colonies, whom Chancellor Kent calls the oracle of the old real law of Massachusetts. Francis came to the bar in 1767, just at the height of the civil struggle. Early he joined the Sons of Liberty and John Adams's diary of 1766 speaks of the club in which Lowell, Dana, Quincy, and other young fellows were not ill employed in lengthened discussions of the rights of taxation. He became an active practitioner at the bar, but especially in causes involving civil and politi cal rights. The death of his father in 1772 left him in possession of a competent fortune, which he regarded as only increasing his Opportunities for service in the public cause. In 1773 he married a daughter of the Hon. Will iam Ellery, one of the leading Rhode Island patriots, and afterward a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Such were his training and associations, and for applying these to useful work he was not lacking in Opportunity.
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