JOSE RAMON IJINIO DANA DIED FRIDAY AT SANTA MARIA
Funeral Will Be Held From the Late Residence in Nipomo on Monday, to Nipomo Catholic Church, Thence Burial Here.

Jose Ramon Uinio Dana is dead. The mere mention of the name brings up a flood of remembrances to the pioneer residents of this county. For the Dana family comes from the old days of California when this county was a part of Mexico. Jose Dana was one of the children of the late Captain William Goodwin Dana and Marie Josefa Carillo Dana. In the early days of California the father of Jose came to this country and in 1825 established a Store in Santa Barbara, The life history of Captain Dana reads like romance; "William Goodwin Dana was born in Massachusetts in 1797. He came of a fine family, among them ministers, statesmen, authors, poets and men of the sea. At the ago of eighteen he went to China on board of his uncle's vessel. He determined to enter the trade of China and India and later he was captain of the "Waverly" plying between this coast, the Sandwich Islands and the Orient. It was 1825 he established a store in Santa Barbara. The handsome young American fell in love with •Dona Maria Josefa Carrillo, daughter of a wealthy Spanish family of Santa Barbara, and he applied to Mexico for citizenship. Things did not move fast enough to suit the ardent lover, so he applied to the Governor of California for permission to marry the lady at once. The governor said he must wait five months, or until his papers of naturalization were forwarded, in August, 1828, the marriage was celebrated with great ceremony. The same year lie built the first vessel ever launched in California, The place where It slipped into the sea still hears the name Goleta (schooner). In 1835 he secured the Nlpomo (fool of the hill) grant and in 1839 came there to live. A big adobe house of thirteen rooms was built, and a lavish hospitality characterized the Dana home. Often maurading bands of Tulare Indians had to be driven off or suffered to drive off cattle. Mr Dana established a soap factory, furniture factory, looms for weaving and blacksmith shops He sold his goods to neighboring ranches, and to the Santa Ynez and La Purisima missions. "He brought- home from his voyage quantities of sandal and other valuable woods. From these he made beautiful furniture, tables, bedsteads and wardrobes. Mr Dana held the office of Prefecto under the Mexican rule. At the first election for state officers in 1849, he received a large vote for state senator; but some informalities awarded the to Don Pablo de la Guerra.' In 1851 he was the first county treasurer elected. Twenty one children were born to Captain and Mrs. Dana. He died February 12, 1858, and his remains are burled here in 'he Catholic cemetery."
Jose Ramon Uinio Dana died at noon yesterday in a sanitarium at Santa Marla, where he had gone to have a serious operation performed in order to refill in his failing health. The age, however, of the pioneer, 78 years, was against his strength and the physicians decided it best to forgo the operation.
Mr. Dana's wife died some time ago and thé deceased is survived by Ramon C., Roman Leslie. Arthur Streeter and Martha Alma Dana. The late Mrs. E.G. Mathews was also daughter.
Funeral services over the remains will be from the family residence at Niporno, Monday, June, 18, at 8:80 a. m.; thence to the Nipomo Catholic church where a requiem mass will be celebrated at 9 o'clock. The Interment will follow at San .Luis Obispo Catholic cemetery in the family plot.
San Luis Obispo Daily Telegram, Number 89, 14 June 1919