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Samuel Adams Drake
Born(1833-12-20)December 20, 1833
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedDecember 4, 1905(1905-12-04) (aged 71)
Kennebunkport, Maine
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer
Spouses
Isabelle G. Mayhew
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(m. 1858)​
O. M. Grant
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(m. 1867)​
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Samuel Adams Drake (December 20, 1833 – December 4, 1905) was an American journalist and writer.

Biography

Samuel Adams Drake was born in Boston on December 20, 1833, a son of Samuel Gardner Drake.[1] He was educated in the public schools of Boston.

He went to Kansas in 1858 as telegraphic agent of the New York Associated Press, became the regular correspondent of the St. Louis Republican and the Louisville Journal, and for a while edited the Leavenworth Times. In 1861 he joined the state militia and served throughout the American Civil War, becoming brigadier general of militia in 1863.[1] In 1864, he was colonel of the 17th Kansas Volunteers, commanding the post of Paola, Kansas, during Price's invasion of Missouri in that year.

He returned to Boston in 1871 and resumed literary work.

He married Isabelle G. Mayhew in 1858. In 1867, he remarried to O. M. Grant.[2]

He died in Kennebunkport, Maine on December 4, 1905.[2]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1906). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. III. Boston: American Biographical Society. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ a b "Col Samuel A. Drake Dead". The Boston Globe. Kennebunkport, Maine. December 5, 1905. p. 7. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

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