Dana was born in New York City on August 20, 1852. He was the son of Charles Anderson Dana (1819–1897) and Eunice (née MacDaniel) Dana (1824–1903).[1] His sister, Ruth (née Dana) Draper, was the mother of Ruth Draper, the celebrated stage actress.[2]
On November 11, 1884, he was married to Mary Butler Duncan (1861–1922).[8] She was the daughter of William Butler Duncan I (1830–1912) and Jane Percy Sargent (1833–1905), herself the daughter of George Washington Sargent. Mary was also the cousin and adoptive sister of William Butler Duncan II, a New York City yachtsman.
Anderson Dana (1889–1960),[14] who married Katryna Ten Broeck Weed (b. 1897), the daughter of George Standish Weed, in 1917.[15] They divorced in 1947.[16]
William Butler Duncan Dana (1891–1930),[17] who married Anstiss Weston (1895–1979), daughter of Robert D. Weston, in June 1916.[18][19] Their daughter, Anstiss Dana, married Arthur M. Jones, Jr. in 1942.[20]
After the death of his wife in 1922, Paul Dana lived at the University Club in New York.[1]
^ abcdefg"PAUL DANA DIES; EX-EDITOR OF SUN; Succeeded His Father, Charles A. Dana, in 1896 and Headed Paper Until 1903. WAS PARK BOARD MEMBER In World War Served on Commission for Relief In Belgium -- Was Early Motoring Enthusiast. Learned Under Father's Direction. Was Keen Sportsman". The New York Times. 8 April 1930. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"RUTH DRAPER, 72, MONOLOGIST, DIES; Famed Trouper Won Hearts of Audiences for 40 Years With One-Woman Show Refused New Material Tribute From Audience". The New York Times. 31 December 1956. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^ abLeonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1913). Who's Who in America. Marquis Who's Who. pp. 511–512. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^Gordon, Ann D. (2013). The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: An Awful Hush, 1895 to 1906. Rutgers University Press. p. 262. ISBN 9780813553450. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^ abOlmsted, Frederick Law (2015). The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Last Great Projects, 1890–1895. JHU Press. p. 261. ISBN 9781421416038. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"PAUL DANA HAS RESIGNED; SAID HE COULD SERVE NO LONGER IN THE PARK BOARD. He Objected to the Opening of Bids for the Second Section of the Speedway Because Under the Washington Bridge There Was to be Only One Sidewalk -- The Law, He Said, Would Be Violated -- His Letter to the Mayor". The New York Times. 31 March 1894. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^McAllister, Ward (16 February 1892). "THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED – WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDERSTAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"DIED. Dana". The New York Times. 18 February 1922. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (1996). The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family. Oxford University Press. p. 362. ISBN 9780195109825. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"MRS. W. T. LONGCOPE". The New York Times. 2 June 1974. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"Troth Announced Of Miss Longcope; Descendant of Charles Dana Will Become the Bride of William F. Keyser". The New York Times. 9 April 1939. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"MISS JANET DANA WEDS DR. LONGCOPE; Only Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dana Is Married in Grace Church. COUSIN IS ONLY ATTENDANT Bride's Brothers Are Ushers ;- Reception at the Dana Residence ;- The Guests". The New York Times. 3 December 1915. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^Wise, Benjamin E. (2012). William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807869956. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"ANDERSON DANA, 70, DIES; Grandson of Dana of The Sun Headed Gravel Company". The New York Times. 10 February 1960. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^The Bulletin of the General Contractors Association. The Association. 1917. p. 278. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"Mrs. Anderson Dana Gets Decree". The New York Times. 19 September 1947. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"Duncan Dana Is Drowned Off Marblehead; Editor's Grandson Was Duck Hunting Alone". The New York Times. 7 December 1930. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"W. B. D. DANA ENGAGED.; Harvard Junior to Marry Miss Anstiss Weston of. Cambridge". The New York Times. 23 February 1914. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^Thayer, William Roscoe; Castle, William Richards; Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe; Pier, Arthur Stanwood; Voto, Bernard Augustine De; Morrison, Theodore (1917). The Harvard Graduates' Magazine. p. 148. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"Anstiss Dana Fiancee Of Arthur M. Jones Jr.; Kin of Charles A. Dana Will Be Bride of Harvard Alumnus". The New York Times. 29 March 1942. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"MANY AT FUNERAL OF PAUL DANA, EDITOR; Service of Grace Church on Broadway--Burial in St. Paul'sCemetery, Glen Cove". The New York Times. 10 April 1930. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"Children Get Dana Estate". The New York Times. 11 April 1930. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
Further readingedit
O'Brien, Frank Michael. The Story of The Sun: New York, 1833-1918 (1918)