Francis Samuel Drake (historian)

Francis Samuel Drake
Born(1828-02-22)February 22, 1828
Northwood, New Hampshire
DiedFebruary 22, 1885(1885-02-22) (aged 57)
Washington, D.C.
Occupation
  • Bookseller
  • biographer
  • historian
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Francis Samuel Drake (February 22, 1828 – February 22, 1885) was an American historian. His 1872 Dictionary of American Biography, containing 10,000 biographical sketches, was expanded after his death as Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.

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