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Samuel Adams Drake

Samuel Adams Drake was raised in Boston. In 1858 he went to Kansas to work as the telegraphic agent of the New York Associated Press. He became a journalist for 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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American journalist and writer (1833-1905)

Born 20 December 1833
Died 4 December 1905

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We need a photo of Samuel Adams Drake

American journalist and writer (1833-1905)

Born 20 December 1833
Died 4 December 1905

Subjects

History Description and travel Biography Nonfiction Young Adult Nonfiction Historic buildings Buildings Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 Descriptions et voyages Juvenile literature Massachusetts, history Armed Forces Atlantic coast Bars (Drinking establishments) Battles Biographies Boston (mass.), description and travel Boston (mass.), history Buildings, structures Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 Burgoyne's invasion, 1777. [from old catalog] Burgoyne, Invasion de, 1777 Campaigns Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776 Clubs

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Massachusetts New England United States Boston (Mass.) Middlesex County (Mass.) Boston Louisbourg (N.S.) Middle Atlantic States New York (State) Virginia America Atlantic Coast Canada Cape Cod (Mass.) Colorado Georgia Leavenworth (Kan.) Maine Middlesex County New Jersey Ohio River Valley West (U.S.)

People

Israel Putnam (1718-1790) Samuel Gardner Drake (1798-1875)

Time

Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Revolution, 1775-1783 Siege, 1745 1775-1783 Civil War, 1861-1865 Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775 King William's War, 1689-1697 New Plymouth, 1620-1691 Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713

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  • Drake Samuel Adams
  • Samuel Drake Adams
  • samuel adams drake
  • SAMUEL ADMAS DRAKE
  • Samuel Adamas Drake
  • Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
  • Samual Adams Drake
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