. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. ALLEN DRAKE. Peter Drake was a native of New Jersey; married Rhuhama Russell, also born in that State. Soon after their marriage, in the year 1813, they removed and settled in the town of Benton, Yates Co., where they remained for sixteen years and carried on farming; and in the year 1829 came to the town of Jasper, where they purchased one hundred and fifty acres of timbered land in the west par
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. ALLEN DRAKE. Peter Drake was a native of New Jersey; married Rhuhama Russell, also born in that State. Soon after their marriage, in the year 1813, they removed and settled in the town of Benton, Yates Co., where they remained for sixteen years and carried on farming; and in the year 1829 came to the town of Jasper, where they purchased one hundred and fifty acres of timbered land in the west part of the town, where they lived the remainder of their days. He died in 1852, aged sixty-five. She died in 1851, aged sixty. Their children are Allen, born in New Jersey, Sidney, Mrs. David Dennis, Mrs. Hiel Savage, Ayres, Mrs. Leler Moors, and Charles Peter. The last two were born in Steuben County; the others, except Allen, were born in Yates County. Mr. Allen Drake received no pecuniary assistance in starting out for himself in life. His education from books was confined to the common school, but the lessons learned while at home, during his minority, of industry, necessary economy, and judicious management laid the fotmdation for a successful business career. At the age of twenty-four he married Priscilla Benaway, of Jasper. The children of this marriage are Sidney, Mrs. William H. Wheeler, Mrs. Andrew Murphy, and Mrs. Harrison Purdy. Mr. Drake began life in the log house and on fifty acres of wild land ; soon after he added fifty acres more ; after six years, in 1840, he settled on one hundred acres, where he now resides, to which he has made additions of some five hundred and sixty acres; some two hundred acres he cleared of the original forest, and all of which he has put in a good state of cultivation, having built on the same some four dwelling-houses now occupied by his children, together with some thirteen framed barns and as many framed sheds. His farm is the larges
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