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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Francis Samuel Drake (1828–1885)

Drake, Francis Samuel. An American historical writer; born in Northwood, NH, Feb. 22, 1828; died in Washington, DC, Feb. 22, 1885. He prepared a ‘Dictionary of American Biography’ (1872). He also published: ‘Life of Gen. Henry Knox’ (1873); ‘Tea Leaves’ (1884); and Indian History for Young Folks’ (1885).