James Freeman Dana (1793–1827), scientist, physician, and educator, was born in Amherst, New Hampshire. Named Jonathan by his parents, he changed his first name in 1820. Dana attended Phillips Exeter Academy in 1805, received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1813, traveled to England in 1815 to purchase chemistry equipment for the school, and was awarded its M.D. in 1817. He practiced medicine in Cambridge while also lecturing in chemistry at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, 1816–20. Dana was elected professor of chemistry at Dartmouth in the latter year, moved to Hanover, and remained there in that position until appointed professor of chemistry at New York City’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (later part of Columbia University) in 1826. Dana was awarded the Boylston Prize by Harvard on two occasions for his scholarship in chemistry and was the author of several works, including Outlines of the Mineralogy and Geology of Boston and Its Vicinity, with a Geological Map (Boston, 1818), which he wrote with his brother, Samuel L. Dana. He died in New York City (DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, 1928–36, 20 vols. description ends ; List of Persons whose Names Have Been Changed in Massachusetts. 1780–1883 [1885], 39; General Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Phillips Exeter Academy. 1783–1903 [1903], 16; Harvard Catalogue description begins Harvard University Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates, 1636–1925, 1925 description ends , 190, 713; Dartmouth Catalogue description begins General Catalogue of Dartmouth College and the Associated Schools, 1769–1925, 1925 description ends , 60, 770; Thomas, Columbia University Officers and Alumni description begins Milton Halsey Thomas, Columbia University Officers and Alumni, 1754–1857, 1936 description ends , 34, 56; New-York Medical and Physical Journal 6 [1827]: 314–8).