He moved to the U.S. in 1866, graduated from Harvard in 1871 and married Ruth Charlotte Dana (daughter of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.) in 1876.
Henry sailed "around the horn" with Richard Henry Dana, Jr. on the ship named the Pilgrim, and arrived in California in 1835.
San Diego during this period is vividly described by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. in his classic book Two Years Before the Mast.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882), American lawyer and author of Two Years Before the Mast, son of Richard Henry Dana Sr. and father of Richard Henry Dana III,
Dana was the son of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; he married Edith Longfellow, the daughter of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. in his novel Two Years Before the Mast commented on first coming ashore at San Diego that
The British newspaper The Times of 27 August 1859 printed a letter about the use of the ballot for voting in the United States, written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. to his friend Lord Radstock.
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The Alert (the ship made famous by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr.in his memoir Two Years Before the Mast), out of New London, shows no colors, and Semmes orders her to heave to, after demonstrating yet again the Alabama's 32-pounder.
The two had both read Two Years Before the Mast by fellow Massachusetts native Richard Henry Dana, Jr., about his voyage by sea to California, spending much time in San Diego, then a small Mexican pueblo.
William Henry Trescot and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. served as counsel for the United States before the Commission.
In 1840, the American adventurer, writer and lawyer Richard Henry Dana, Jr. wrote of his experiences aboard ship off California in the 1830s in Two Years Before the Mast.
Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879), American poet and author, son of Francis Dana and father of Richard Henry Dana Jr.,
In 1876, his nomination as ambassador to Great Britain was defeated in the Senate by political enemies, partly because of a lawsuit for plagiarism brought against him for a legal textbook he had edited, Henry Wheaton's Elements of International Law (8th ed., 1866).