DRAKE, SAMUEL ADAMS

(18331905), editor and author, b. Boston, Ma . As a young man he went to Kansas, entered journalism, became a correspondent of St. Louis and Louisville papers and edited the. Leaven worth Times. He joined the Union forces in the Civil War, serving as inspector, adjutant general and brigadier general of the Kansas militia. After the war he settled in Boston as an author and produced a considerable number of popular works. His subjects included myths and folklore, England, the West, the Ohio Valley States and the Revolution.