DRAKE
DRAPER
Making of New England (1886); The Old Boston
Taverns and Tavern Clubs (1886) ; Burgoyne' s In-
vasion of 1777 (1889) , The Pine Tree Coast (1891) ;
The Taking of Louishurg, 1745 (1891); The Battle
of Gettysburg (1892); The Making of Virginia and
the Middle Colonies, 1578-1701 (1893); Our Colo-
nial Homes (1894); The Making of the Ohio Valley
States, 1660-1873 (1894) ; The Campaign of Tren-
ton, 1776-77 (1895). The Watch Fires of '76
(1895); On Plymouth Bock (1897); The Border
Wars of New England (1897)
DRAKE, Samuel Gardner, antiquarian, was born in Pittsfield, N.H., Oct. 11, 1798; son of Simeon and Love Muchmore (Tucke) Drake, and a descendant of Robert Drake, who emigrated from England about 1642 and settled in Exeter, N.H., as a merchant. In 1818 Samuel Gardner became teacher of a school in London, N.H., and in 1819 and 1820 taught in New Jersey. He con- tinued to teach in his native state until 1825, meanwhile taking great pleasure in collecting old books. In 1828 he embarked in the book auction business which pi'oved a failvire and was discontinued in 1830. He then opened an anti- quarian book store on Cornhill, Boston, the first store of the kind in the United States, and it was well patronized by book collectors. Mr. Drake became interested in the aboriginal history of the country and made exhaustive researches for his • ' Book of the Indians " ( 1834 ; 1 1th ed. , 1851 ) . In 1845 he took an active part in the formation of the New England historic, genealogical society, was its first corresponding secretary, 1845-56, and its president, 1858-59. In ^November, 1858, he went to England to collect material • for his books and remained abroad two years. He received from Union college the honorary degree of A.M. in 1843. His principal publications are: ^4 Be- print of Church's History of King Philip's MVtr (1825) ; Indian Biography (1832) ; The Book of the Indians (1833) ; The Old Indian Chronicle (1836); Indian Captivities (1844); Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Drake in America (1845) ; Life of the Indian Chief, Brant (1848) ; News from New Eng- land (1850) ; 3Iemoir and Pedigree of Cotton 3Iather (1851); Old Doi'chester (ISol) ; Prince's Chronology (1852) ; History and Antiquities of Boston (1856) ; Bestdt of Some Besearches Among the British Archives for Information Belative to the Founders of New England (1860) ; Memoir of Sir Walter Baleigh (1862) ; Mather's History of Philip's War (1862); Early History of New England (1864); Annals of Witchcraft in the United States (1869); and History of the French and Indian War (1870). He died in Boston. Mass., June 14, 1875.
DRAPER, Andrew Sloan, educator, was born at Westford, Otsego county, N.Y.. June 21, 1848; son of Sylvester Bigelow and Jane (Sloan) Draper. His first ancestors in America were
t^c5^g^.
James and Miriam (Stansfield) Draper, who emi
grated from Yorkshire, England, and settled at
Roxbury, Mass., in 1647. He was graduated at
the Albany (N.Y.) academy in 1866 and at the
Albany law school in 1871. He practised law in
Albany, 1871-84; was a member of the Albany
school board, 1878-81
and again 1892-94; a
member of the New
York assembly in
1881 ; of the board of
trustees of the New
York state normal
college, 1882-87; a
judge of the United
States court of com-
missioners to arbi-
trate the Alabama
claims, 1884-86; state
superintendent of
public instruction,
1886-92; president of
the national associa-
tion of school superintendents, 1888-91 ; super-
intendent of instruction, Cleveland, Ohio,
public schools, 1892-94, and president of the Uni-
versity of Illinois from 1894. In March, 18r8, he
was elected borouj;li superintendent of i ubUc
schools of the city of New York, under tl.e new
charter of Greater New York, but declired the
position. He was married in 1872 to Abbie Louise
Lyon of New Britain, Conn. He received the de-
gree of LL.D. from Colgate university in 1890.
His publications include: What Ought the Common
Schools to Do? Howcanlt be Done? {1886); Horn
to Improve the Country/ Schools (1887) ; The Poic-
ers and Obligations of Teachers (1887) ; The Legal
Status of the Public Schools (1882) ; School Admin-
istration in Large Cities (1888) ; The Indian Problem
of the State of New York (1888); TJie Origin and
Development of the New York Common School Sys-
tem (1889) ; The Authority of the State in the
Education of Her Children (1890) ; A Teaching Pro-
fession" (1890); The Limits of State Control in
Education (1891); The Besponsibility and Authonty
of School Trustees (1891) ; Tlie Spirit of School Ad-
ministration (1892) ; Public School Pioneering in
Neio York and Massachusetts (1892) ; The Spirit of
the Teacher (1893); Science in the Elementary
Schools (1894); The Pilgrim and His Share in
American Life (1895) ; The Illinois Life and the
Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1896) ; The Dis-
tinguishing Features of the State Universities (1897) ;
The Crucial Test of the Public School System (1897) ,
Functions of a State Touching Education (1898) : The
Schools and Citizenship (1898); American Universi-
ties and the National Life (1898) ; and The Bes-
cue of Cuba ; an Episode in the Growth of Freedom,
(1899).