BIOGRAPHIES

COMMEMORATIVE
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF THE COUNTIES OF
HURON AND LORAIN, OHIO
CONTAINING
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens
and of Many of the Early Settled Families
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
J. H. BEERS & CO.
1894

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DAVID DRAKE, a leading farmer and dairyman of Carlisle township, is a native of Schoharie county, N. Y., born Apr. 20, 1820, a son of Alexander and Lucy (Benson) Drake, of Vermont, who migrated to New York State in an early day.  The Drake family are of English descent and in early Colonial days three granduncles of Mr. Drake - Benjamin, Cyrus and Alexander - came from England to Vermont, where they settled as farmers.  The father of David, who was by trade a blacksmith, was born in the year 1766, and died in Montgomery county, N. Y., July 2, 1838, being buried July 4.  He was twice married, and by his first wife had three children - Preserve, Polly and Sally.  The children by the second marriage were Apollos, Pliny, Gilbert, Abram, David, Dennis (of Iowa, now deceased), and Caleb (living in Missouri); of whom Apollos, about the year 1830, came from Delaware county, N. Y., to Medina county, Ohio, and died at Hamilton’s Corner in 1883, a lifelong Democrat.      David Drake, the subject proper of these lines, received his education in Schoharie and Montgomery counties, N. Y., and until he was twenty-seven years old worked on farms by the month or day, two seasons for twenty shillings per month.  In 1862 he migrated from New York State to Medina county, Ohio, where he remained one year, and then moved to Spencer township, same county, whence in 1867 he came to Penfield township, Lorain county.  Here he bought an improved farm which he lived on and conducted eighteen years, and then moved to LaGrange township, same county, making his home there one year.  In 1885 he finally settled in Carlisle township, where he owns the old Golden farm, bought by him from William A. Braman, and which consists of 144 acres of highly-improved land; he also owns ninety acres in Carlisle besides the tract he resides on, making, in the aggregate, 234 acres.      On Feb. 7, 1848, in New York State, Mr. Drake was married to Miss Julia Alger, of New York, daughter of William and Casadena Alger, natives of England, who when young came to New York, where they married and died.  To this union were born three children, viz.: William, married, and living in Carlisle, has three children: Olivia, Ray and Lulu; Esther, widow of Milan Cone, of Penfield township, has four children: Letha, Kate, Mercy and Fred; Hattie, wife of George Blase, in Carlisle township, has one child - Claude - by a former marriage with Charles Spicer.  Mrs. Julia A. Drake died Oct. 10, 1875, and Feb. 13, 1878, Mr. Drake was united in marriage, in Medina county, Ohio, with Miss Aurelia Graham, a native of that county, daughter of Andrew Graham, an early settler of Medina, who died Aug. 18, 1892.  By that marriage there is one child, Lucy, living at home.  In his political affiliations our subject is a Republican.  He is a representative self-made man, having accumulated all he owns by his individual perseverance and industry. Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 1094

A. G. Dawley

A. G. DAWLEY   Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 1120