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Columbus Drew Sr.

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Columbus Drew Sr.

Birth
Virginia, USA
Death
8 Jul 1891 (aged 71)
Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, USA
Burial
Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, USA Add to Map
Plot
section 2, lot 53
Memorial ID
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(special thanks to Jim Bass for link to father and the following info) - "Lawyer. He removed to Jacksonville, Fla., in 1845 from Washington, D.C. and held for four years the office of comptroller-general. From time to time he published a number of poems, some of which went the rounds of the press; but they have not yet been collected into book form."

[Source: Edwin Anderson Alderman & Joel Chandler Harris (eds.), Library of Southern Literature 127 (New Orleans: Martin & Hoyt Co., 1910) (1907)(Vol. 15, Biographical
Dictionary of Southern Authors, 1929, Lucian Lamar Knight ed.)][A review of Alice Jane Drew's collection of her father's work, presented in Columbus Drew: Something of His Life and Ancestry, and Some of His Literary Work makes no reference to Drew's being a lawyer.]

"Columbus Drew, came to Jacksonville in 1848 and opened the eponymous Columbus Drew Stationery & Printing Company in 1855." [Source: "Special Collections Exhibits," Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida]
(special thanks to Jim Bass for link to father and the following info) - "Lawyer. He removed to Jacksonville, Fla., in 1845 from Washington, D.C. and held for four years the office of comptroller-general. From time to time he published a number of poems, some of which went the rounds of the press; but they have not yet been collected into book form."

[Source: Edwin Anderson Alderman & Joel Chandler Harris (eds.), Library of Southern Literature 127 (New Orleans: Martin & Hoyt Co., 1910) (1907)(Vol. 15, Biographical
Dictionary of Southern Authors, 1929, Lucian Lamar Knight ed.)][A review of Alice Jane Drew's collection of her father's work, presented in Columbus Drew: Something of His Life and Ancestry, and Some of His Literary Work makes no reference to Drew's being a lawyer.]

"Columbus Drew, came to Jacksonville in 1848 and opened the eponymous Columbus Drew Stationery & Printing Company in 1855." [Source: "Special Collections Exhibits," Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida]

Gravesite Details

Born VA, came from D.C. to operate Whig newspaper "The Florida Republican". Founder H&WB Drew Co., 1855.



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