San Luis Obispo County Biographies

HENRY CAMILO DANA

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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HENRY CAMILO DANA, engaged in raising cattle and sheep in the Nipomo, 
is a son of Captain W. G. Dana (whose sketch is given on a subsequent page) and 
nee Maria Josefa Carillo, and was born in Santa Barbara, July 14, 1839, one of twenty- 
one children, twelve of whom are now living. Mr. Dana has followed ranching all his life, 
on the old homestead. He now has 300 acres, beautifully situated in the Nipomo. 
He has never been away from Nipomo for any length of time, except in 1853, when he 
visited the Eastern States for a year and a half, especially New York and Massachusetts. 
He has been Deputy County Clerk of San Luis Obispo County, and frequently has been 
Clerk of Election. 

He was married in 1884, to Josephine Blake, and has three children. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.