Edgar DeWitt Drake

1884 - 1978  (93 years)

• Name	Edgar DeWitt Drake
  Born	31 Aug 1884	Dunville, Ontario
  Gender	Male
  Died	6 Jan 1978
  Buried	Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
  Person ID	I1129123	Jacob and Barbara (Schenk) Hoover
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2015

  
  

  Father	Thomas Drake,   b. 7 Apr 1838, Dunn Township, Ontario ,   d. 15 Sep 1915, Dunnville, Ontario-Dunnville Riverside Cemetery  (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Jane Sherk,   b. 18 Apr 1846, South Cayuga Township, Ontario ,   d. 6 Sep 1906, -Riverside Cemetery, Dunnville, Ontario  (Age 60 years)
  Married	28 Nov 1865	Rainham Township, Ontario
  Family ID	F202407	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Edith Roberts,   b. 20 Mar 1885, Fodmorden, Ontario ,   d. 12 Dec 1960  (Age 75 years)
  Married	12 Aug 1914	Ontario
  Children	1. Stella Mabel Drake,   b. 1 Aug 1916,   d. ca 2001  (Age 84 years)
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2015
  Family ID	F250341	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Edgar DeWitt Drake was a wonderful artist, a painter of considerable talent. Born in Dunnville, Ontario on August 31, 1884, he moved to Toronto in about 1908, then to Fort William from 1913 until 1920 when he returned to Toronto. He was a working man (printer and ad compositor at the Toronto Telegram) until the mid 1950's but painted nearly his whole life. He had formal art training in Boston, also at the Buffalo School of Art and the Art Student League in New York. He died January 06, 1978 and was buried with his wife Mary Edith (died December 12, 1960) in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. They had one daughter, Stella Mabel Drake, born August 01, 1916. In 1959 she married the minister and evangelist Ernest Crossley Hunter (son of the famous travelling evangelist John Hunter). Stella died about 2001.