Payson Dana '04, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CRIMSON and Civil Service Commissioner for Massachusetts, died yesterday afternoon at the Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain, after a lingering illness. The funeral will be held on Friday afternoon at the First Parish Unitarian Church, Brookline.

Mr. Dana, who was born in Lewiston, Maine, on May 25, 1881, came to Massachusetts at the age of 11, and after graduating from the College in 1904, took his LL.B. degree at the Law School in 1907. While at the University, he played on the baseball team and was business manager of the CRIMSON at the time when Franklin D. Roosevelt '03, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was president of the paper. He managed the University track team that went abroad in 1904, and, together with Yale, defeated the combined teams of Oxford and Cambridge by a score of 6 to 3.

He was for six years a member of Troop B of the First Squadron of cavairy, and when the World War broke out Dana wanted to go abroad in that division of the service. There was little call for cavalry; however, and he enlisted instead as a private in the Chemical Warfare department.

The later years of his life were devoted to public service. He was for seven years a member of the Board of Selectmen of Brookline, and for 16 years, chairman of the Brookline Playground Commission. When Calvin Coolidge was governor of the state and was looking for a responsible man to reorganize the Civil Service, he selected Mr. Dana from a large number of possible incumbents for the position of chairman of the Commission.