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Drake, Benjamin M., clergyman, educator, college president, was born Sept. 11, 1800, in North Carolina. He was instrumental in building the first methodist church in New Orleans; was president of Elizabeth female academy, the first methodist school established in that state; and was also president of Centenary college. He died in 1860 in Mississippi. |