Paul Dana (August 20, 1852 – April 7, 1930) was an American journalist and editor of the New York Sun.

[1] In 1890, he was appointed a commissioner of the New York City Department of Public Parks by mayor Hugh J.

[5] Dana served on the park board until his resignation in 1894,[6] because the other commissioners refused to hire a landscape architect.

Mary was also the cousin and adoptive sister of William Butler Duncan II, a New York City yachtsman.

[1] After a service at Grace Church in Manhattan, he was buried at St. Paul's Cemetery in Glen Cove on Long Island.