I found this bio and thought the lady who has been asking about the Drake family could use it. Drake, W. S. Richhill Township W. S. Drake, merchant and dealer in agricultural implements, Jacksonville, Penn., was born in Morgan Township, February 11, 1838. He is a son of Francis and Eliza (Stewart) Drake, who were respectively natives of New Jersey and Washington County, Penn., and of English, Scotch and German origin. His father was a chairmaker and painter, and was also skilled in other trades. He died February 20, 1878. the subject of this sketch is the oldest in a family of five children, four of whom are living. He was raised in this county, receiving his education in the common schools of Morgan, Jefferson and Richhill townships. He taught for several years, and in 1860, being desirous of seeing more of the world, he went to Texas, where he again engaged in teaching school until 1862. He then enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Texas Cavalry, was Orderly Sergeant, and served until 1865. While his service was in the Confederate Army, yet at heart he was a Union man. In 1865, he, with about one-hundred others, started for the Union lines and were captured and returned, and were in prison when the war closed. After the close of the war Mr. Drake again taught school for a year in Denton County, Texas, and in 1866 returned to Richhill Township, for four years engaging in farming and carpenter work. In 1870 he formed his present partnership with Perry Sowers, dealing in general stock, wool and farming implements. In 1861 Mr. Drake married Julia E., daughter of George C. and Julia E. (Ohlhausen) Parker. Her father was born in Virginia and her mother near Philadelphia, Penn. They were of English and German origin. Mr. and Mrs. Drake have six children - Anna, wife of Silas Jennings; May, John, W. C., George and Emma. Mr. Drake is a Democrat and a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity. (Source: History of Greene County, Pennsylvania. Samuel P. Bates, Chicago, 1888, p. 832)