Frederic E. Drew of Portsmouth, N.H. Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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   FREDERIC E. DREW, city clerk 0f Portsmouth, N. H., was born
in Manchester, N. H., October 13, 1877, one of the five children of

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Samuel T. and Emma (Chamberlain) Drew. He was educated in the
public schools of Portsmouth, and subsequently learned the printing
business with the Portsmouth Times Publishing Company. In 1898
he went to New York City, where he was employed with the Imperial
Shoe Company for three years. He afterward traveled all over the
country, visiting nearly every state in the Union for the Mitchell Gas
Generator & Burner Company of Boston. In 1903 he returned to Ports-
mouth and engaged as city editor of the Portsmouth Times, serving
as such until 1913, when he was elected as city clerk, being re-elected
to the same office in 1914. In 1908 he was a member of the board of
assessors of taxes. In politics he is a Republican. Fraternally he is a
thirty-second degree Mason, a member of DeWitt Clinton Commandery,
K. T., of St. John's Lodge, No. 1, A. F. & A. M., Portsmouth Lodge,
No. 97, B. P. 0. E.; Damon Lodge, No. 1, K. of P., and Alpha Council,
R. A. Mr. Drew married Myrtle M. Cook, daughter of Charles A. and
Amy Grant Cook. They have three children.