Howard-Sullivan County IN Archives Biographies.....Draper, Fred C. 1874 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

FRED C. DRAPER.

   Fred C. Draper, member of the firm of Draper & Sons and a gentleman of
influence and recognized business ability, was born August 24, 1874, in
Sullivan, Indiana, being the second son of Isaac P. and Jennie Draper, whose
sketch precedes this review. Mr. Draper received a good English education in the
schools of his native town of Kokomo and acquired his first knowledge of
practical affairs as a clerk in the Strickland Clothing House of the latter
city, this experience being, in fact, the foundation of his subsequent career as
an enterprising and progressive man of affairs, though he had previously
intended preparing himself for the dentistry, and had already taken a course in
a dental college at Indianapolis. After returning from that city he worked for a
limited period in his fathers place of business, but later, in the year 1906,
became a partner in the concern, which relation he still sustains and in which
he has worked rapidly to the front until he now occupies an important position
in the establishment, besides gaining honorable recognition among the rising
young men of the community.

   Mr. Draper inherits many of the sterling attributes and sturdy
characteristics for which his antecedents have long been distinguished, and
since becoming identified with the business interests of Kokomo has made his
influence felt in commercial and industrial circles, being a man of forceful
personality and well fitted by nature and training to carry to successful issue
large enterprises and to discharge worthily the duties of high and important
trusts. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Order of Eagles and in
politics votes the Democratic ticket, though not a strict party man nor ever an
aspirant for office or public honors at the hands of his fellow citizens.
Personally he is quite popular, possessing as he does the amiable qualities that
attract friends and win close confidences among the young men of Kokomo with
whom he associates, and he is held in very high esteem.

   Mr. Draper was very happily married on the 15th of January, 1902, to Ice
Turner, who has borne him two children—a son, Harry, whose birth occurred July
5, 1903, and a daughter, Frances, who was born July 13th of the year 1907, the
former dying in infancy.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)


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