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| Born | February 22, 1828 Northwood, New Hampshire |
| Died | February 22, 1885 (aged 57) Washington, D.C. |
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Francis Samuel Drake (February 22, 1828 – February 22, 1885) was an American historian. His 1872 Dictionary of American Biography, containing 10,000 biographical sketches, was expanded after his death as Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.