Career
He received his education in the public schools of Troy, Williams College (1895), Harvard Law School, 1898. Draper served as a private in the Spanish war. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1898, specializing in corporations, commercial law, bankruptcy and estates.
From 1908-1914 he was judge of the city court of Troy.
During the World War, he was chairman of local exemption board Number. 3. Draper was married to Mary J. Mann Draper, and fathered three children.
