Abram J. Drake Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Laura Armetta - FURRY1000@aol.com

Surname: DRAKE
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 956

     ABRAM J. DRAKE, owner and proprietor of the Drake House at
Rye Beach, N. H., was born in the town of Rye, Rockingham County,
N. H., September 14, 1845. His parents, both natives of Rye, are now
deceased. The father, Joseph Drake, was a farmer. His wife, before
marriage, was Clarissa Dwight Knowles. They were members of the
Methodist Church. Their children were: Adams E.; Annie D., wife
of Joseph W. Garland; Leona, wife of Blake H. Rand; John 0. ; Mary,
deceased, first wife of Alfred Seavey; Clarissa, wife of Alfred Seavey;
Abram J.; and James B., deceased. The paternal grandfather of our
subject was Abraham Drake.
     Abram J. Drake was educated in the common schools. He then
learned the carpenter's trade; which he followed for ten years. He
then built a hotel which was destroyed by fire in 1873, after which he
built his present hotel at Rye. Beach, which he has now conducted
successfully for thirty-eight years. The hotel contains thirty-two rooms,
and is fitted up in modern style, and in the summertime enjoys a fine
patronage.
     Mr. Drake, who was married October 27, 1870, to Emma A. Phil-
brick, who was born in Rye, N. H., and is a daughter of Benjamin
and Angeline (Batchelder) Philbrick, of Rockingham County, N. H.,
her father being a carpenter. They had two children, Albion and Emma.
Mr. Drake is a Democrat in politics. He belongs to Osgood Lodge,
I. O. O. F., at Portsmouth, and he and his family are affiliated with the
Congregational Church.

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