general of that province npon the confederation of the provinces of British North America, being placed in command of her Majesty's forces in North America. For his services in these capaci- ties he was knighted. In 1874 he was assigned to the command of the southern district of England ; in 1860 he became a major-general, and in 1870 a lieutenant-general. He is also colonel of the 87th regiment (Roval Irish fusileers).
DRAKE, Benjamin Michael, b. in North Caro-
lina, 11 Sept., 1800; d. in Churchill, Miss., 8 May,
1800. He joined the Tennessee confei-ence in 1820,
and the next year was transferred to the Mississippi
conference, in connection with which he attained
a commanding position. He was instrumental in
building the 1st Methodist church in New Orleans,
was president of Elizabeth female academy, the
first Methodist school established in that state, and
was also president of Centenary college.
DRAKE, Daniel, physician, b. in Plainfield,
N. J., 20 Oct., 1785; d. in Cincinnati, Ohio. 5 Nov.,
1852. At an early age he and his family emigrated
to Mayslick, Ky., where they dwelt in a log cabin.
In his" sixteenth year the boy left home, to study
medicine in Cincinnati, and at the age of twenty
found his way to Philadelphia, where he attended
two courses of lectures at the medical school of the
University of Pennsylvania. Returning to the
west, he practised medicine for a year near his old
home in Kentucky, and finally settled in Cincin-
nati. In 1815 Dr." Drake attended a second course
of lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, when
he was graduated, and, returning to Cincinnati, he
soon gained a large and profitable practice. Dur-
ing the two years preceding he had entered on sev-
eral business ventures and speculations in connec-
tion with his father, all of which miscarried. In
1817 he was appointed professor of materia medica
in Transylvania university, Ky., and thereafter oc-
cupied a chair in other medical schools in succes-
sion, until 1835, when he organized the medical
department of the Cincinnati college. Here he re-
mained four years, and tJien accepted the chair of
clinical medicine and pathological anatomy in the
University of Louisville, Ky. He returned to Cin-
cinnati, and once more, for a single session, filled
the chair of medicine in the medical college of
Ohio. In 1850 he again went to Louisville, and
finally re-entered the medical college of Ohio. In
1827 he projected the " Western Journal of the
Medical and Physical Sciences." continuing as one
of the editors until 1848. Among his publications
are " Topography, Climate, and Diseases of Cincin-
nati " (a pamphlet, 1810) ; " Picture of Cincinnati
and the Miami Count^ry " (Cincinnati, 1815) ;
" Practical Treatise on the History, Prevention,
and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera" (1832);
" Practical Essays on Medical Education " (1832) ;
and '• Systematic Treatise on the Principal Dis-
eases of the Interior Valley of Nortli America"
(1850 ; 2d vol., Philadelphia, 1854). The last pro-
duction of his pen was a small volume of " Dis-
courses " (1852). — His brother, Benjamin, biogra-
pher, b. in Mason county, Ky., in 1794; d. in Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, 1 April, 1841, studied and at first
practised law in Cincinnati. In 1830 he estab-
lished a weekly paper, " The Western Agricultu-
rist," continuing for many years its editor and pro-
prietor. Like his brother, he was nuich devoted to
western interests. His publications include " Cin-
cinnati in 1826 " (Cincinnati, 1827) ; " Life and
Adventures of Black Hawk" (1838); "Tales and
Sketches from the Queen City" (1838); "Life of
William Henry Harrison" (1840); and "Life of
Tecumseh" (1841). To the last-named work he
gave much time and attention, and it is historically
valuable. — Another son, Charles Daniel, lawyer,
b. in Cincinnati, 11 April, 1811 ; d. in Washington,
D. C, 31 March, 1892. He spent a short time at St.
Joseph's college, Ky., and at a military academy in
Middletown, Conn. From 1827 till 1830 he w"as a
midshipman in tiie U. S. navy, in 1833 was ad-
mitted to the bar m Cincinnati, and in 1834 re-
moved to St. Louis, Mo. In 1847 Mr. Drake re-
turned to Cincinnati, whence in 1850 he again
went to St. Louis to practise his profession. In
1859 he was elected a member of the Missouri
house of representatives and was conspicuous for
his opposition to the secession movement, in 1863
a member of the state convention, and in 1864 was
chosen a member of a convention to revise the state
constitution. In 1867 he became U. S. senator from
Missouri, but this office he resigned to accept the
appointment of chief justice of the court of claims
in Washington. He has published a " Treatise on
the Law of Suits by Attachment in the United
States" (Boston, 1854), and a "Life of Daniel
Drake," his father (1871).
DRAKE, Sir Francis, navigator, b. near Tavis-
tock, Devonshire, according to some authorities in
1539, and to others in 1545 or 1546 ; d. near Puer-
to Bello, 27 Dec, 1595. His father was a poor
clergyman, and Francis was the eldest of twelve
sons, "nearly all of whom followed the sea. He re-
ceived a scanty education through the liberality of
a kinsman, and was apprenticed to the master of
a bark, who bequeathed him his vessel as a reward
for his faithful service. Being thus at the age of
eighteen years not only a good sailor, but the pro-
prietor of a ship, he made commercial voyages to
the bay of Biscay and the coast of Guinea. He
then sold his vessel and invested the j^roceeds,
with all his savings, in an expedition of Capt.
Hawkins to Mexico, made in 1567. There were
five ships, Drake receiving command of the " Ju-
dith," a vessel of fifty tons. The expedition, after
capturing 400 or 500 negroes on the African coast,
crossed to Dominica for trade, then attempted to
reach Florida, but was driven by tempest into the
harbor of San Juan de Ulua (now Vera Cruz) for
repairs and supplies. The next day a fieet of
twelve ships arrived from Spain. A naval bat-
tle followed, in
which only two
of the English
ships escaped.
Drake returned
to England, hav-
ing lost his en-
tire property,
and fruitlessly
petitioned the
court of Spain
for indemnity ;
but getting no
satisfaction, and
enraged at the
treatment he re-
ceived, he began
to sail with the
avowed object
of pillaging the
Spaniards. In
1570 he obtained
a commission
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from Queen Elizabeth, and in 1572 he armed two ships at Plymouth, with which, joined by a third at Port Pheasant on the coast of South America, he made a descent on New Granada, captured and plun-
