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.
American journalist and writer (1833-1905)
| Born | 20 December 1833 |
| Died | 4 December 1905 |
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American journalist and writer (1833-1905)
| Born | 20 December 1833 |
| Died | 4 December 1905 |
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History, Description and travel, Nonfiction, Biography, 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, ClubsPlaces
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.)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, 1702-1713ID Numbers
- OLID: OL177630A
- ISNI: 0000000082000231
- VIAF: 13554269
- Wikidata: Q15975503
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q15975503
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Alternative names
- 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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