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and at Partridge's military academy, Middletown, Conn., 1824-25. He was appointed a midshipman in the U.S. navy, 1825, serving till January, 1830, when lie resigned to study law. He was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in 1833, and in 1834 he removed to St. Louis, Mo. In 1838 he organized the St. Louis law library. He was a member of the Missouri house of representatives, 1859-60, a member of the Missouri state constitutional con- vention of 1863-64, and in the last session was vice-president of the body, and the instrument framed became known as " Drake's constitu- tion." In 1867 he was elected U.S. senator from Missouri serving until December, 1870, when he resigned to accejit from President Grant the aj)- pointment of chief justice of the U.S. court of claims, which position he held until Januaiy, 1885, when he retired. He received the degree of LL.D. from Hanover college, Indiana, in 1863, and from the University of AVooster, Ohio, in 1875. His widow, Margaret E. Drake, died at Washing- ton, D.C., April 30, 1896. He published: A Treatise on the Law of Suits by Attachment in the United States (1854); Union and Anti-slavery Speeches Delivered During the Behellion (1864) ; and Life of Daniel Drake (1871). He died in Wash- ington, D.C., April 1, 1892.

DRAKE, Daniel, physician and educator, was born in Plainfield, N.J., Oct. 20, 1785. In 1788 his parents removed to Mason county, Ky. , and in December, 1800, he was taken to Cincinnati, Ohio, to study medicine. He began the practice of medicine in Mason county, Ky., in 1804, and attended lectures in the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1805 and again in 1815 and 1816, and was graduated in 1816. He was professor of materia medica in Transylvania university, Ky., 1816-18. In 1819 he obtained from the Ohio legislatiu-e the charter of the medical college of Ohio, located in Cincinnati ; and from that time till his death he was engaged in teaching in different medical schools in that city, and in Lexington and Louis- ville, Ky., and Philadelphia, Pa. In 1821 he ob- tained from the Ohio legislature a grant of money to erect a hospital in Cincinnati. He established the Western Journal of the Iledical and Physical Sciences in 1827, and was its editor until 1848. He published: Picture of Cincinnati and the Miami Country (1815) ; Practical Treatise on the History, Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera (1832) ; Practical Essays on Medical Education (1832); and Systematic Treatise on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of Xorth America (2 vols., 1850-54). Seei(/e of Daniel Drale (1861) by his son, Cliarles Daniel Drake, LL.D. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 6, 1852.

DRAKE, Francis Marion, governor of Iowa, was born in Rushville, Schviyler coimty. 111., Dec. 30, 1830; son of John Adams and Harriet J.

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(O'Niel) Drake, natives of North Carolina; grand- son of Benjamin and Celia (Thayer) Drake of Nash comit}', N.C. ; and great-grandson of James Drake of Virginia. In 1837 the family removed to Fort Madison in the territory of Wisconsin and in 1846 to Davis county, where John Adams Drake founded the town of Drakeville and where Francis Marion attended the district school and as sisted his father, the principal business man of the place. He organized a wagon train in 1852 and ci-ossed the plains to California, fighting his way through *^^

ti-ibes of hostile In \^

dians. He returned ^ *

to Iowa in 1853, and »_^ / * - ^.

in 1854 drove one hun- / » K/X^i,. KJ lyCt/i^-^j dred milch cows across the plains and moun- tains to California. This time he vmdertook to return by sea and was wrecked in the Yankee Blade when eight hundred lives were lost. With the other survivors he retui-ned to San Fran- cisco and made a safe passage to New York in the Golden Gate. He then engaged in business in Drakeville and in 1859 in Unionville. He was major in the Union army, 1861-62, under General Prentiss and repulsed General Price's army at St. .Joseph. Mo. He was lieutenant-colonel of the 36th Iowa volunteers in the army of the Tennes- see, 1862-64, commanded a detachment at Elkins's Ford in April, 1864, where he drove back General Marmaduke's division; and commanded a brigade at Marks's Mills, April 25, 1864. At the latter place he was defeated by six times his number imder Ma j. -Gen. J. F. Fagan. His regiment was cap- tured and he was left on the field by the enemy, as mortally wounded. He rejoined his regiment at the end of six months and was brevetted brig- adier-general of volunteers by President Lincoln. After leaving the service he practised law and engaged in the promotion of railroad enterprises in Iowa, Indiana and Illinois. He founded Drake rmiversity, Des Moines, Iowa, and was its princi- pal benefactor. His first gift of $20,000 in 1880 was followed by liberal sums each year. In 1898 he gave to it over §25,000 and he liberally assisted other schools, churches and charitable institu- tions. He was a candidate for governor of Iowa before the Republican state convention of 1893, but did not receive the nomination. In 1895 lie was nominated and elected. He refused a second term, as an accident resulting in injuries that threatened the reopening of the wound received