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Lyman Copeland Draper was born on September 4, 1815 in New York City, New York, United States. He was a son of Luke Draper, of colonial English stock, who fought in the War of 1812 as his fought in the Revolution.
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Lyman Copeland Draper was born on September 4, 1815 in New York City, New York, United States. He was a son of Luke Draper, of colonial English stock, who fought in the War of 1812 as his fought in the Revolution.
In Lockport, New York, Lyman Draper attended the village school, worked in stores. Passed two years in college studies at Granville, Ohio. A short course at Hudson River Seminary completed his formal training.
Draper's private reading, mainly historical, included all the books he could find which bore on the history of the frontier. With the sympathy and patronage of Remsen who gave him a home at several different periods, he journeyed over the Allegheny frontier area from western New York south to Alabama and Mississippi, seeking out the pioneer survivors, usually very aged men, and taking down from their own lips the stories of perilous adventure and daring they had to tell.
For a few months he was joint owner and editor of an unsuccessful weekly in northern Mississippi; for a season he planted sweet potatoes — unsuccessfully, in the same region; for a year or two he held a clerkship under a relative who was superintendent of the Krie Canal at Buffalo.
His interviewing was a process of gentle but unrelenting cross-questioning w'hich sifted truth from error as far as that is possible: The reminiscences of the pioneers, carefully recorded, together with supplementary and corrective material gathered from court records, from contemporaneous or later newspaper narratives, from account books, letters, diaries, title deeds, etc. , came to fill a long series of volumes.
In addition to these notes, Draper also received from many custodians of old papers, original manuscripts which were believed to have an important relation to his quest.
In 1858 and 1859 he served as state superintendent of public instruction, and in this capacity obtained the passage by the legislature of a bill providing for township libraries—the funds for which were diverted to meet the exigencies of the Civil War—and attempted to lay the foundation for a library for the state university.
Draper supplied many short biographies to Appletons’ Cyclopedia, and he published a monumental work on King’s Mountain (King’s Mountain and its Heroes, 1881), but the extended biographies he contemplated were never produced.
His interests as a document collector and a writer were restricted to the dramatic ; he had no flair for political, economic, or social history.
As secretary of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, 1854-86, however, he included all aspects of history, and laid broadly the foundations of one of the great historical libraries.
He built up a manuscript collection relating to the early fur-trading period in Wisconsin and the Northwest; he took advantage of the opportunity to gather in files of early newspapers; and he began the publication of the Wisconsin Historical Collections.
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In person Draper was diminutive — less than five feet in height and slender, but sturdy and with a marvelous power of endurance. His countenance was benevolent and his general attitude retiring and scholarly, but he was cleverly persistent in any quest he happened to be pursuing. He combined restless activity with painstaking scholarship and a diplomatic tactfulness which rarely failed of its object.
In 1853 Draper was married his cousin, the widow of his patron Remsen.
In October 1889 he married Mrs. Catherine T. Hoyt.
