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came to Cambridge as pastor of the First Church in 1809; and
both his sons, Oliver Wendell and John, became authors -the one
being known to all English readers, while the other, with
perhaps greater original powers, was known only to a few
neighbors. The Ware family, coming in 1825, was a race of
writers, including the two Henrys, John, William, John F. W.,
and George. Richard Dana, the head of the Boston bar in his day,
was a native of Cambridge (1699); as was his son Francis Dana,
equally eminent and followed in lineal succession by Richard
Henry Dana, the poet; and by his son of the same name, author of
Two years before the Mast. The Channing family, closely
connected with the Danas, was successively represented in
Cambridge by Professor E. T. Channing, the Rev. W. H.