Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Drake, David Jackson 1823 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   DAVID JACKSON DRAKE, a merchant and Deputy Postmaster of Newark, was born in
Holmes County, Ohio, December 20, 1823, and is the son of George and Rachel
(Johnson) Drake, natives of Ohio, in which State they lived until their
respective deaths. They were the parents of three children—Elizabeth (wife of
Waterman Benner), David and Dennis (deceased). Our subject came to this State in
1866, and settled on a farm in this county, where he remained one year, then
removed to Newark where he has since resided, and engaged in mercantile
business. In 1881, he became Deputy for Postmaster Joseph G. Smith, and has
since held that position. August 27, 1847, his marriage with Miss Mary E.
Dotson, of Monroe County, Ohio, was solemnized, and to them have been born seven
children—James W., George D., John (deceased), Seward, Clarence (deceased), Emma
(Mrs. David D. Lyons) and Albert L. Mr. Drake is a Republican in politics, and
he and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been
successful in business, owns a good farm of forty acres of well-improved land
adjoining Newark, and a fine business property in the town. Mr. Drake is an old
and honored citizen of Greene County, and he and family are respected by all who
know them.

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Beech Creek Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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