Samuel Adams Drake (December 20, 1833 – December 4, 1905) was an American journalist and writer.
Biography
Samuel Adams Drake was born in
Boston
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on December 20, 1833, a son of
Samuel Gardner Drake.
He was educated in the public schools of Boston.
He went to
Kansas
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in 1858 as telegraphic agent of the New York Associated Press, became the regular correspondent of the
St. Louis ''Republican'' and the
Louisville
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''Journal'', and for a while edited the
Leavenworth ''Times''. In 1861 he joined the state militia and served throughout the
American Civil War
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, 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
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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.[
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Works
* ''Hints for Emigrants to Pike's Peak'', a pamphlet and his first publication (1860)
* ''Old Landmarks of Boston'' (1873)
* ''Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast'' (1875)
* ''Bunker Hill'' (1875)
* ''Captain Nelson'' (1879)
* ''History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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'' (1880)
* ''Around the Hub'' (1881)
* ''Heart of the White Mountains'' (1882)
* ''New England
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Legends and Folk Lore'' (1884)
* ''Our Great Benefactors'' (1885)
* ''The Making of New England'' (1886)
* ''The Making of the Great West'' (1887)
* ''Burgoyne's Invasion'' (1889)
* ''The Taking of Louisburg'' (1891)
* ''The Pine Tree Coast'' (1891)
* ''The Battle of Gettysburg
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'' (1892)
* ''The Making of Virginia'' (1893)
* ''Our Colonial Homes'' (1894)
* ''The Campaign of Trenton'' (1895)
* ''The Watch Fires of '76'' (1895)
* ''On Plymouth Rock'' (1898)
* ''The Myths and Fables of To-day'' (1900)
* ''The Young Vigilantes'' (1904)
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1833 births
1905 deaths
American male journalists
Writers from Boston
Historians from Massachusetts