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Samuel Adams Drake

1833–1905

Naissance: 20 décembre 1833, Boston
Décès: 4 décembre 1905, Kennebunkport
Nationalité: États-Unis
Profession: Journaliste, historien ou historienne, éditeur ou éditrice et écrivain ou écrivaine

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Samuel Adams Drake (December 20, 1833 – December 4, 1905) was an American journalist and writer.

Early life

Samuel Adams Drake was born in Boston in 1833, a son of Samuel Gardner Drake and Louisa Elmes. He was educated in the public schools of Boston.

Career

Drake 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. 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.

Personal life

Drake married Isabelle G. Mayhew in 1858. In 1867, he remarried, to Olive Nowell Grant.

Death

He died in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1905. He was interred in Wyoming Cemetery in Melrose, Massachusetts.

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