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Drake, Francis Samuel

author, was born Feb. 22, 1828, in Northwood, N.

H. He prepared without aid a Dictionary of American Biography, the materials for which he was twenty years in collecting.

He also published a Memorial of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati (1873); Life of Gen. Henry Knox (1873); The Town of Roxbury (1873); Tea-Leaves (1884); and Indian History for Young Folks (1885). He edited Schoolcraft's History of the Indians; and contributed articles on Brighton, Watertown, and Roxbury to the Memorial History of Boston. His Dictionary of American Biography, with his latest corrections and all the materials that he had gathered for a new edition, was incorporated in Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography. He died Feb. 22, 1885, in Washington, D. C.