Drake, Joseph Rodman – Drew, Daniel
Drake, Joseph Rodman
physician, author, poet, was born Aug. 7, 1795, in New York city. He was a talented physician of New York city, co-author with Halleck of The Croaker Papers in the Evening Post. His poetical fame rests on The Culprit Fay; and The American Flag. He died Sept. 21, 1820.
Drake, Samuel Adams
author, was born Dec. 20, 1833, in Boston, Mass.
He is the author of Around the Hub, a Boy's Book About Boston; The Heart of the White Mountains; Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston; Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast; Old Landmarks and Historic Fields of Middlesex; Captain Nelson; The Watch Fires of '76; Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777; The Taking of Louisburg; The Battle of Gettysburg; Our Colonial Homes; New England Legends and Folk- Lore; The Making of New England, 1580- 1643; The Making of Virginia and the Middle Colonies, 1578-1701; The Making of the Ohio Valley States, 1660-1837; The Making of the Great West, 1512-1853; History of Middlesex County; and The Pine-Tree Coast.
Drake, Samuel Gardiner
author, was born Oct. 11, 1798, in Pittsfield, N. H. He was a Boston bookseller of antiquarian tastes who, beside editing several historical works, was the author of Memoir of Cotton Mather; Entertaining History of King Philip's War; Book of the Indians; Old Indian Chronicle; Account of the Family of Drake; Memoir of Walter Raleigh; History and Antiquities of Boston; Indian Biography; Indian Captivities; Annals of Witchcraft in the United States; and History of the French and Indian War. He died in 1875.
Drake, Thomas J
lawyer, journalist, jurist, was born April 18, 1799, in Scipio, N. Y. In 1822 he settled at Pontiac, Mich., and was a leading lawyer for more than fifty years. He was a member of the territorial council from 1828 to 1831. He was senator in 1839-41, and acting governor in 1841-42. He was prosecuting attorney; register of probate; presidential elector in 1840 and 1856; chief justice of Utah from. 1862 to 1869; and publisher of a paper first at Flint, then at Pontiac. He died April 20, 1875.
Draper, Andrew Sloan
lawyer, educator, college president, author, was born June 21, 1848, in Westford, N. Y.
He was a lawyer and educator of Albany, and since 1894 president of the university of Illinois. He is the author of What Ought the Common Schools to Do?; How to Improve the Country Schools; Powers and Obligations of Teachers; School Administration in Large Cities; Origin of the New York Common School System; A Teaching Profession; Authority of the State in Education; Legal Status of the Public Schools; Normal and Training School System of New York; Responsibility and Authority of Trustees; American Schools and American Citizenship; and Public School Pioneering in New York and Massachusetts.
Draper, Daniel
meteorologist, was born April 2, 1841, in New York city. He has invented numerous self-recording instruments, including the photographic barograph and thermographs (dry and wet), pencil gauges for rain and snow, for direction of the wind, and for the velocity and force of the wind.
Draper, Henry
educator, author, was born March 7, 1837, in Prince Edward county, Va. He was the author of The Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope; and Text-Book of Chemistry. He died Nov. 20, 1882, in New York city.
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Draper, John Christopher
physician, author, was born March 31, 1835, in Mecklenburg county, Va. He was a New York physician, professor in the university of New York; and the author of Text-Book in Anatomy; Physiology and Hygiene; Practical Laboratory Course in Physics; and Text-Book of Medical Physics. He died Dec. 20, 1885, in New York city.
Draper, John William
scientist, author, was born May 5, 1811, near Liverpool, England. He was a distinguished scientist who came from England to the United States in 1832, and from 1839 to 1881 was connected with the university of New York. He was the author of History of the Civil War in America; History of the Intellectual Development of Europe; The Future Civil Policy of America; Human Physiology; Elements of Chemistry; Text-Book of Natural Philosophy; Text-Book on Physiology; Researches in Actino-Chemistry; Scientific Memoirs; and History of the Conflict between Religion and Science. He died Jan. 4, 1882, in Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y.
Draper, Joseph
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1830 to 1833.
Draper, Lyman Copeland
antiquarian, author, was born Sept. 4, 1815, in Adams, N. Y. He was an antiquarian writer of Madison, Wis.; and the author of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin; and King's Mountain and its Heroes. He died Aug. 27, 1891, in Madison, Wis.
DRAPER, THOMAS JEFFERSON, physician, was born Oct. 7, 1852, near Mineral Springs, Ark. He attended the South Arkansas college; and in 1878 graduated in medicine from the university of Louisville. He has received a classical education; and is well read in literature, science and political economy, as well as in medicine. He has been mayor of Mineral Springs, Ark.; president of the Howard County Medical society; examiner for four life insurance companies; a member of the board of medical examiners, and of various other medical bodies.
Draper, William Franklin
soldier, manufacturer; congressman, was born April 9, 1842, in Lowell, Mass. He served in the union army during 1861-64, and held commissions as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain, major, and lieutenant colonel, commanding, also as colonel and brigadier-general by brevet. He is manufacturer of cotton machinery and has made and pat- a ented many improvements in such machinery. He was president of the Home Market club in 1891 and 1892; was a delegate to the republican national convention in 1876; was colonel on staff of Governor Long from 1880 to 1883. He was a candidate for governor before the republican state convention of 1888 and chosen presidential elector at large the same year; and was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a republican, and declined a re-election. In 1897 he was appointed ambassador to Italy.
Drapier, William H
journalist, author, was born Sept. 4, 1832, in Boston, Mass. In 1861 he was elected and commissioned colonel of the state militia. For thirty years he was an official stenographer in the constitutional conventions of several states, and various political bodies, and edited several newspapers. He is now the proprietor of the Indiana Journal of Commerce of Indianapolis, Ind. He has been elected and re-elected frequently as an officer of the Indiana Editors' and Publishers' association.
Drayton, Henry S
journalist, author, was born Sept. 16, 1840, in New Jersey. He is connected with the publishing house of Fowler and Wells; and is the editor of the Phrenological Journal and Science and Health. Besides his editorial work that would fill volumes, he is author of several books, among them, Light in Dark Places; and Brain and Mind.
Drayton, John
governor, author, was born in 1766, in South Carolina. He was governor of South Carolina from 1800 to 1802, and from 1808 to 1810; and was district judge of the United States for some years previous to his death. He published A View of South Carolina; Memoirs of the Revolution in South Carolina, in two volumes; and Letters Written During a Tour Through the Northern and Eastern States. He died Nov. 27, 1822, in Charleston, S. C.
Drayton, William
jurist, was born in 1733, in South Carolina. In 1789 he was appointed the first United States judge for the district of South Carolina.
He died May 18, 1790.
Drayton, William
soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 30, 1776, in St. Augustine, Fla. He was a captain in the South Carolina militia; in 1812 was commissioned a colonel in the United States army, and inspector-general in 1814. He assisted Generals Scott and Macomb in preparing a System of Infantry Tactics for the army. He was elected recorder of Charleston in 1819; and was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1825 to 1833. He was chosen president of the United States bank in 1840. He died May 24, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Drayton, William Henry
jurist, statesman, author, was born in 1742, in South Carolina. In 1771 he was appointed a judge; was president of the provincial congress; and was made chief justice in 1776. He was a leading member of the South Carolina assembly; was a delegate to the continental congress from 1778 to 1779, and was a signer of the articles of confederation. He was the author of a History of the American Revolution, which was afterward published in three volumes by his son. He died in 1779.
Dreher, Julius Daniel
educator, college president, was born Oct. 28, 1846, in Lexington county, S. C. He graduated with honors from the Roanoke college of Salem, Va.; of which institution he has been president since 1878; and for seven years prior to that time was professor in the same college.
Dresser, Horace
lawyer, author.
He wrote much on constitutional questions, and published The Battle Record of the American Rebellion; and Internal Revenue Laws as Amended to July, 1866.
He died Jan. 27, 1877.
Drew, Daniel
capitalist, was born in 1788, in Carmel, N. Y. In 1866 he was treasurer of the Erie Railroad company, to which he lent the sum of $3,500,000, receiving as security $3,000,000 of shares of unused stock and $3,000,000 of bonds convertible into stock. In 1866 he gave $250,- 000 to found the Drew Theological seminary of Madison, N. J., and increased this sum by successive donations to nearly $1,000,000. He died Sept. 19, 1879, in New York city.