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Draper,

Andrew

Sloan, lawyer, educator,

college president, author, was born June 31, 1848, in Westford, N.Y. He was a lawyer and educator of Albany; and since 1894 president of the university of Illinois. He is the author of What Ought the Common Schools to Do; also to Improve the Country Schools; Powers and Obligations of Teachers; School Administration in Large Cities; Origin of the New York Common School

How

System;

A

Teaching Profession, Authority of the State in Education; Legal Status of the Public Schools; Normal and Training School System of New York; Responsibility and Authority of Trustees American Schools and American Citizenship; Public School Pioneering in New York and Massachusetts; The Spirit of the Teacher; Science and Elementary Schools; The Pilgrims and Their Share in American Life; The Organization and Administration of City School Systems; American Universities and the National Life

and The Rescue

of Cuba.

Draper,

Daniel, meteorologist, inventor, was born April 2, 1841, in New York City. He has invented numerous self-recording instruments, including the photographic barograph and thermographs, the pencil gauges for rain and snow, for direction of the wind, and for the velocity and force of the wind.

Draper, Eben Sumner, manufacturer, congressman, was born June 17, 1858, in Hopedale, Mass. He was educated in Allen's school of West Hopedale at Newton, Mass., and the Massachusetts institute of technology. In 1898, through the Massachussets volunteer aid association, he raised two hundred thousand dollars for the hospital ship Bay State in the Spanish-American war. In 1900 he was a republican presidential elector. In 1909-10 he was governor of Massachusetts. Draper, George Otis, manufacturer, author, was born July 14, 1867, in Hopedale, Mass. He is one of the largest manufacturers of cotton machinery in this country. He has made over eighty patents and one of the

most valuable and labor-saving textile the Northrop loom. He is the author

is

of

Searching for Truth. Draper, Henry, educator, author, scientist, was born March 7, 1837, in Prince Edward county, Va. While on a, trip through Europe his attention was attracted toward astronomy and astronomical photography; and on his return to the United States built the observatory at Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. He was the author of The Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope; and Text-Book of Chemistry. He died Nov. 20, 1882, in New

York

City.

Draper, John Christopher, physician, scientist, author, was born on March 31, 1835, in Mecklenburg county, Va. He was professor of chemistry in the university of New York City. He was the author of Text-Book in Anatomy; Physiology and Hygiene; Practical Laboratory Course in Physics; and

Text-Book of Medical Physics. He died Dec. 20, 1885, in

New York

City.

Draper, John William, educator, scientist, author, was born May 5, 1811, near Liverpool, England. In 1839-81 he was connected with the university of New York. He was the author of History of the Civil War in America; History of the Intellectual Development of Europe; The Future Civil Policy of America; Human Physiology; Elements of Chemistry; Text-Book of Natural Philosophy; Text-Book on Physiology; also ReScientific Actino-Chemistry; searches in Memoirs; and History of the Conflict between Religion and Science. He died Jan. 1882, in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.

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DAper, Joseph, congressman, was born in Virginia. In 1829-33 he was a representative from Virginia to the twenty-first and twenty-second congresses.

He

died in Virginia.

Lyman

Copeland, antiquarian, author, was born Sept. 4, 1815, in Adams, N. Y. He was the author of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin; and King's Mountain and its Heroes. He died Aug. 27, 1891, in MadiDraper,

son, Wis.

Draper, William Franklin, soldier, manudiplomat, congressman, was born April 9, 1842, in Lowell, Mass. He served in the union army during 1861-64; and he held commissions as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, capfacturer,

tain,

major and

lieu-

tenant-colonel, commanding also as colonel and brigadiergeneral by brevet. He is a manufacturer of

cotton machinery and has made and patented many improvements in such machinery. He was president of the Home market club in 1891-92; was a delegate to the republican national convention in 1876; and was colonel on staff of Governor Long in 1880-83. He was a candidate for governor before the republican state convention of 1888; and chosen presidential elector at large the same year. In 1893-97 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a republican, and declined a reelection. In 1897-99 he was ambassador to Italy. Draper, William H., manufacturer, congressman, was born June 34, 1841, in Worcester county, Mass. Since 1847 he has resided in Troy, N.Y., and was educated there.

He

is now engaged in manufacturing cordage and twine under the firm name of William H. Draper and son. In 1896-1900 he was commissioner of jurors of Rensselaer county, N.Y. In 1901-11 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-seventh,

fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth first

congresses as a republican.

and sixty-