. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . ccessfullyin the practice of law about six years. Lor the pasttwenty years he has been in the railroad and bankingbusiness ; has projected and built five railroads, and isnow president of the Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa Railroad,and Albia and Centerville Railroad Companies ; a directorof the Keokuk and Western Railway, and president ofthe Centreville National Bank. He is also president ofthe board of trustees of Drake University, 1 )es Moines,Iowa, which bears his name as one of its founders and itsmost liberal benefacto
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . ccessfullyin the practice of law about six years. Lor the pasttwenty years he has been in the railroad and bankingbusiness ; has projected and built five railroads, and isnow president of the Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa Railroad,and Albia and Centerville Railroad Companies ; a directorof the Keokuk and Western Railway, and president ofthe Centreville National Bank. He is also president ofthe board of trustees of Drake University, 1 )es Moines,Iowa, which bears his name as one of its founders and itsmost liberal benefactor. He has also contributed largelyto other educational institutions, and to the missionarysocieties and church-extension fund of the ChristianBrotherhood, with which he stands prominently con-nected. General Drake was married December 24, 1855, toMary Jane Lord, deceased June 22, 1883. Two sons—Frank Ellsworth and John Adams—and four daughters,Millie D. Shonts, Jennie D. Sawyers, Eva D. Goss, andMamie Drake, are living. ivS OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY ^volunteer). BREVET COLONEL PATTON JONES YORKE, Brevet Colonel Patton Jones Yorke was born inWilmington, North Carolina, January 7, 1843, of Northernparents, his father. Captain Louis Sprogle Yorke, ofSalem, New Jersey, being of Revolutionary ancestry, anda descendant of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwick, Eng-land. Colonel Yorke was educated at Princeton, NewJersey, ami in 1 856 entered the Naval Academy at Annap-olis as an acting midshipman, United States Navy, wherehe remained for three years. At the outbreak of the warhe joined the Commonwealth Artillery of 24, l86l,hewas mustered as corporal. He servedwith that command at Fort Delaware until August 5,[86l, when it was mustered out. August , 1S61, he wasmustered as first lieutenant of Company E, First NewJersey Cavalry, and first met the enemy December 2^).[861, at Pohick Church, Virginia, October }, 1862, hewas mustered as captain Company I, First
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