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Samuel Adams Drake was born on December 19, 1833 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Samuel Gardner and Louisa (Elmes) Drake. His father and his brother, Francis Samuel Drake, were both historians.
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Samuel Adams Drake was born on December 19, 1833 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Samuel Gardner and Louisa (Elmes) Drake. His father and his brother, Francis Samuel Drake, were both historians.
Drake was educated in the public schools of Boston.
In Kansas Drake worked with a newspaper and was correspondent for papers in the East.
In 1866 he returned to New England. Beginning in the early seventies he published books at the rate of about one a year for twenty-five years. Two of these, Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast (1875), dedicated to Longfellow, and The Heart of the White Mountains (1882), dedicated to Whittier, were little more than sumptuous guide-books.
Samuel wrote also a series of semi-popular but dependable histories, dangerously like text-books: The Making of New England (1886), The Making of the Great West (1887); The Making of Virginia and the Middle Colonies (1893); and The Making of the Ohio Valley States (1894).
But apart from these, the region round Boston was dominant in nearly everything that he wrote, from the Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston (1873), Historic Fields and Mansions of Middlesex, Our Colonial Homes (1894), to his one novel, a boys book, The Young Vigilantes, a Story of California Life in the Fifties (1904).
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On September 14, 1858 Drake married Isabella G. Maythew. On October 4, 1866 Drake married Olive N. Grant of Kennebunkport, Maine.