Samuel Adams Drake

Samuel Adams Drake (December 20, 1833, Boston – December 4, 1905, Kennebunkport, Maine) was a United States journalist and writer.

Biography

He was a son a Samuel Gardner Drake. He was educated in the public schools of Boston.

He 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.

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