The Draper Family
Draper Family Ancestry (from General Draper’s autobiography)
Ebenezer Draper
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General William F. Draper (Two biographies and several newspaper clippings.)
General Draper: Boyhood in the Hopedale Community
Learning a Trade (William Draper’s life from 1858 to 1861)
Going to War (Draper in the fall of 1861)
Letters, 1861 – 1862 (Letters by William Draper written during his first year in the army.)
The Wedding of William Draper and Lilla Joy
Wounded (William Draper’s account of being shot during the Battle of the Wilderness)
Letters from later years (One letter from the general and several written to him)
Waiting for William (A few days from Lilla Draper’s 1873 diary.)
The Wedding of William Draper and Susan Preston
Susan Preston Draper (General Draper’s second wife.)
George Draper Bust Stolen – 1975
Kentucky Spouses (Seven Draper men married women from Kentucky, and two Draper women married men from Kentucky.)
Edith Draper Blair Daughter of General William and Lilla Draper; married Montgomery Blair, Jr.- family of the original owners of Blair House in Washington, D.C. The link goes to a condensed version of Edith’s diary written when she was a student at Miss Porter’s School. At one time the entire diary was online, but that’s no longer available.
Margaret Draper (Princess Boncompagni, aka Madame Boncompagni) Pictures baby — adult
Margaret Draper’s Wedding and articles about her in the news through 1925.
Donation of land for General Draper High School
The Princess Ends the Feud (Or was it Dorothy Draper Gannett …. or someone else??? You decide.)
The General Draper Library (Milford News article on the dedication of the library at Hopedale High School in 1929.)
William F. Draper (William the artist, not William, the general.)
Draper obituaries – (Sophie Whitin Draper, Lilla Scharnberg, Grace McMullen, Clare H. Draper III, Joy Roberts.)
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Gov. Eben S. Draper The Ledges (Home of Gov. and Mrs. Draper) Boston Home Burned
Pres. Taft visits Hopedale, Mendon and Uxbridge with Gov. Draper
Photos of the Gov. Draper family taken in 1911.
The Regulation of Automobiles – Gov. Eben S. Draper
The Draper Family Feud- The governor’s account of it.
Eben S. Draper, Jr. Ruth Draper, stowaway
Bristow and Queena Draper and their children
Helene Draper (Articles on debutante balls, parties and wedding.)
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Frances Eudora (Draper) Colburn
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Draper Family Feud (William F., Eben S. and George A. Draper)
Draper Family Feud (An account of it by Gov. Eben S. Draper.)
The Princess Ends the Feud (Or was it Dorothy Draper Gannett …. or someone else??? You decide.)
Rich and Famous – (Drapers in the news)
Draper family reunion in Hopedale, c. 1999
Draper tombs at Hopedale Villiage Cemetery
The “other Drapers” A little about some of the many Drapers in Hopedale who were not related to the “corporation Drapers.”
Joseph Bancroft – Lilla Bancroft Bracken Pratt’s story of her father’s life. The Bancrofts have been included here because, in addition to Joseph’s position with the Draper Company, the Drapers and the Bancrofts were related. Joseph’ wife Sylvia’s sister Anna was married to Ebenezer Draper, and her sister Hannah was married to George Draper. Also, Joseph was an executive with the various Draper companies nearly all of his working life, and president of Draper Company for the last couple of years of his life.
Almon Thwing – Included here because of Thwing’s relationship to the Draper family and company through three of his sisters.