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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Drake , Francis Samuel , 1828 -1885 (search)
Drake, Francis Samuel, 1828-1885
Biographer; born in Northwood, N. H., Feb. 22, 1828; son of Samuel Gardner Drake.
He is the author of Dictionary of American biography; Life of Gen. Henry Knox; The town of Roxbury; Indian history for young folks, etc. He edited Schoolcraft's history of the Indians.
He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 22, 1885.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schoolcraft , Henry Rowe 1793 -1864 (search)
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe 1793-1864
Ethnologist; born in Watervliet, N. Y., March 28, 1793.
His ancestor who first settled in America was a school-teacher named Calcraft, and he was popularly named Schoolcraft.
Henry studied chemistry and mineralogy in Union College in 1807-8.
In 1817-18 he took a scientific tour in the West,Schoolcraft.
Henry studied chemistry and mineralogy in Union College in 1807-8.
In 1817-18 he took a scientific tour in the West, and made a fine mineralogical and geological collection, publishing, in 1819, A view of the lead mines of Missouri, which was enlarged and published (1853) under the title of Scenes and adventures in the semi-alpine regions of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas.
In 1820 he was geologist of an exploring expedition under ectures on the grammatical construction of the Indian languages.
These, translated into French by Duponceau and presented to the French Institute, procured for Schoolcraft a gold medal from that institution.
He published several works on Indian literature, as well as fiction, and in 1832 led a second government expedition to disc
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