2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Samuel Adams Drake (1833-1905) was an American journalist and writer. 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. In 1861 he joined the state militia and served throughout the American Civil War, becoming brigadier general of militia in 1863. In 1864, he was colonel of the 17th Kansas Volunteers, commanding the post of Paola, Kansas, during Price's invasion of Missouri in that year. Autograph Letter Signed “Sam Adams Drake” written on 4” x 5” paper, datelined Melrose Aug 25 (likely 1886) to A.H. Pratt advising in part “...always home in the forenoon” ..”
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