BROWN COUNTY OHIO - BIO: DRAKE, Josiah W. (published 1894)
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A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND.
A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894 - Page 246

        JOSIAH W. DRAKE, an ex-soldier and well known citizen of Muncie,
Ind., was born in Brown county, Ohio; June 3, 1841, a son of Robert and
Melissa (Gardner) Drake. They were natives of Ohio and after marriage
followed farming. In 1831 they came to Hamilton county, Ind., where they
now reside. Josiah W. Drake received a common school education, and engaged
in business on his own account in 1865, beginning the harness making in
Boxley, Hamilton county, Ind. He was appointed post master of the village
by Andrew Johnson, serving in that capacity for one year. He then engaged
in saw and flour milling, following these occupations for two years, and
then spent one year in Orange county, at French Lick, for the benefit of
his health. Becoming somewhat better, he returned to Hamilton county and
engaged for one year in selling Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines; then
located at Berlin, Clinton county, Ind., where he followed the mercantile
business for one year, but sold this and removed to Circleville, same
county, where he engaged in painting for the four succeeding years. At the
end of that time he took a contract for supplying the ties for the L. E. &
W. R. R. for one year, and then removed to Muncie, continuing in the employ
of the same road in the bridge department. Mr. Drake's war record is an
honorable one, and his pension of six dollars a month was valiantly earned.
In July, 1861, he enlisted in company B, Thirty-ninth Indiana volunteers,
and at the expiration of his term of service re-enlisted at Ringgold, Ga.,
in February, 1863, serving in company B, Eighth Indiana cavalry. He
participated in many hard skirmishes and took part in the battle of
Chickamauga, being finally discharged at Wilmington, N.C. In 1885 Mr. Drake
engaged in the restaurant business, and has since continued in the same
line, becoming proprietor of the LaClede, October 13, 1892. Mr. Drake was
married in Hamilton county, Ind., October 6, 1866, to Miss Amanda Phillips,
who was born in Morgan county, Ind., daughter of Thomas Phillips, a native
of North Carolina. Three children have been born of this marriage - Myrtle
and two infants, all deceased. Politically Mr. Drake is a democrat, and is
one of the sterling citizens of the flourishing city of Muncie.


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