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land,” being reprints of Mather's “Wonders of the Invisible World,” and Robert Calef's “More Wonders of the Invisible World,” with introduction and notes (3 vols., 1866); “Annals of Witchcraft in the United States” (1869); and “History of the French and Indian War” (1870).—

His son, Francis Samuel, b. in Northwood, N. H., 22 Feb., 1828; d. in Washington, D. C., 22 Feb., 1885, was educated in the public schools of Boston. After aiding his father in his Boston book-store he entered a counting-house in that city, but went to Leavenworth, Kan., in 1862, and engaged in bookselling there till 1867, when he returned to Boston. Mr. Drake inherited his father's taste for historical work, and was an eager collector long before he wrote anything for publication. He prepared without aid a “Dictionary of American Biography,” the materials for which he was twenty years in collecting (Boston, 1872). He also published a “Memorial of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati” (1873); “Life of Gen. Henry Knox” (1873); “The Town of Roxbury” (1873); “Tea-Leaves” (1884); and “Indian History for Young Folks” (1885). He edited Schoolcraft's “History of the Indians,” and contributed articles on Brighton, Watertown, and Roxbury to the “Memorial History of Boston.” His “Dictionary of American Biography,” with his latest corrections and all the materials that he had gathered for a new edition, is incorporated in “Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.”—Another son, Samuel Adams, b. in Boston, Mass., 20 Dec., 1833, was educated in the public schools of his native city. He went to Kansas in 1858 as telegraphic agent of the New York associated press, became the regular correspondent of the St. Louis “Republican” and the Louisville “Journal,” and for a while edited the Leavenworth “Times.” On the organization of the state militia at the beginning of the civil war he became adjutant-general of the northern division, and in 1861 was a captain of militia in the service of the United States. He had risen to the rank of brigadier-general of militia in 1863, and in 1864 was colonel of the 17th Kansas volunteers, commanding the post of Paola, Kan., during Price's invasion of Missouri in that year. In 1871 Gen. Drake returned to Massachusetts. His first publication was “Hints for Emigrants to Pike's Peak” (a pamphlet, 1860). He has since written “Old Landmarks of Boston” (1872); “Old Landmarks of Middlesex” (1873); “Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast” (1875); “Bunker Hill” (1875); “Captain Nelson” (1879); “History of Middlesex County, Mass.” (1880); “Heart of the White Mountains” (1881); “Around the Hub” (1881); “New England Legends” (1883): “Our Great Benefactors” (1885); and “The Making of New England” (1886).

DRAPER, Alonzo Grauville, soldier, b. in Brattleboro, Vt., 6 Sept., 1835 ; d. in Brazos, Tex., 3 Sept., 1865. He early settled in Boston, and was graduated at the English high-school in 1854, after which he removed to Lynn, where he edited the " New England Mechanic," and held oflRce in the city government. At the beginning of the civil war he recruited a company of volunteers for the 14th Massachusetts regiment, and was commis- sioned captain, 6 May, 1861. In January, 1863, he was promoted major, and, after being transferred to the 2d national colored regiment, was made colonel in August, 1863, and afterward attached to the 25th corps, where for a month he had charge of a brigade in Maj.-Gen. Paine's division, and where he won the title of .brevet brigadier-general,. 28 Oct., 1864. A few months previous to his death he left Virginia in command of a brigade, and died from wounds received in Texas.

DRAPER, Andrew Sloan, lawyer, b. in West- ford, Otsego CO., N. Y., 21 June, 1848. He was- graduated at Albany academy in 1866, and at Al- bany law-school in 1871, and began practice in that place. He was a member of the city board of edu- cation in 1879-'81, and of the legislature in the latter year. He was appointed a member of the court ot' commissioners of Alabama claims by Presi- dent Arthur, and sat in that court during the last year erf its existence, when over 2,000 cases were tried. In 1886 he became state superintendent of public instruction.

DRAPER, John William, scientist, b. in St. Helen's, near Liverpool, England, 5 May, 1811 ; d. in Hastings-on-Hudson, 4 Jan., 1882. He was the son of John C. Draper, a Wesleyan clergyman, who was interested in scientific subjects. Young Draper was educated at home under private tutors and at Woodhouse grove, a public-school of the Wesleyans, where he developed a fondness for science. In 1829 the University of London was opened, and he was sent there to receive a course of instruction in chemistry under Dr. Edward Turner, but the death of his father prevented his taking a degree, and in 1832 he came to the United States with his mother and his sister Catherine, settling in the Wesleyan colony in Christiansville, Va., where for a time he devoted himself entirely to scientific pursuits. He was graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. The results of several investigations published in the "Journal of the Franklin Institute " and in Silliman's "American Journal of Science" gave him reputa- tion, and he was called to the chair of chemis- try and natural philosophy in Hampden - Sid- ney college, Va., where he began his official duties in the autumn of 1836, meanwhile prosecuting his researches in va- rious directions. In 1837 he was elected professor of the proposed medical depart- ment in the Uni- versity of New

York, but the

financial difficulties of. that year caused the abandonment of the project. Two years later, however, he was appointed professor in the university itself, and in 1840 was very active in the organization of the medical department, becoming its professor of chemistry. In 1850 he succeeded Dr. Valentine Mott in the pres-