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History of Manistee, Mason and Oceana counties, Michigan
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of
Its Prominent Men and Pioneers

Published by H. R. Page & Co., Chicago, IL, 1882

Transcribed by Linda Talbott

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Page 146
DRAKE, William H.
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William H. Drake, deceased, was born in Amity, Erie Co., Pa., November 24,
1821, and was married to Mary A. Logan, November 24, 1846.  They came into
this state in 1856, settling in Van Buren County, where they resided until
the Fall of 1860, when they moved into this township.  He purchased eighty
acres of Government land, at 50 cents per acre.  He built a dwelling house
and moved his family into it, August 12, of the same year.  He was drafted
September 12, 1864, and was taken ill, and died in Jefferson Hospital,
Indiana, February 11, 1865.  He left six children -- Dean, Susanna,
George, Ellen J., Eliza, Emma.
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