Frank L. Dana (1857-1914)

DANA, WHIPPLE, CHEEVER, COREY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/23/2016 at 21:06:01

From Nevada Representative November 3, 1914 (front page)

OBITUARY

Obituary of Frank Dana

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer of Octber 26 comes to hand with notice of the death of the late Frank Dana. the paper saya:

"Funeral services for the late Frank M. Dana, vice president of the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the family residence, 5720 Fifteenth avenue northeast. Rev. R. W. McCullough of the Tabernacle Baptist church, will conduct the services. The body will be cremated.

"The death of Mr. Dana which occurred Saturday after a short illness, removes one of the best-known figures in Northwest contracting circles. He had been a resident of Seattle since 1897, and his acquaintance included almost every person of any prominence whatever in any line of activity in this part of the country.

"Mr. Dana was born in Nevada, Iowa, October 18, 1857. He was married September 21, 1881, to Effie L. Whipple, who survives him together with five children: Don W., Jay L., Lee H., Mrs. Edgar W. Cheever and Clyde A. Dana. His mother, Mrs. J. L. Dana, and his sister, Mrs. J. D. Corey, both of this city, also survive him.

Mr. Dana spent his boyhood in Iowa, graduating in law at the Iowa state university. After several years spent in positions of public trust in his native city, he moved in 1884, to Cheyenne, Wyo., where he was engaged in business for several years.

On coming to Seattle, in 1897, he became associated with the San Francisco Bridge Company, which was later incorporated as the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company, and he has ever since been connected with that concern. He was promoted to the position of contract manager of the company and for several years has been in addition to one of its vice presidents.

"S. H. Hedges, president of the company, spoke yesterday in terms of the highest praise of his late associate. 'It is seldom.' he said, 'that the president of a concern has the good fortune to have associated with him a man of Mr. Dana's exceptional ability and sterling personal attributes. As contract manager and vice president of the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company he had a wonderful knowledge of conditions and of men all over the entire Northwest. Mr. Dana had wonderful faculty of observation, keen sense of deduction and that loyalty and integrity that make for success in any line of work. I do not know how we can fill his place. Personally, I consider his death a distinct loss, not only to our company, but to the community at large."