The Drapers in America

The Draper men have ever been to the front in all emergencies of private and public life. They have held offices of all kinds in the village, town, city, county or country, at home and abroad. They have been soldiers, sailors, statesmen, lawyers, doctors, engineers, authors, merchants, farmers, manufacturers, in the church and school, and have brought to each and every one of these occupations an earnestness and steadfastness of purpose and success of the highest order. The women, their wives and daughters, have not often had a role to play in public, but to whatever position they have been called, they have always fulfilled the duties assigned to them, not alone as helpmates and equal partners in life's struggles, but with credit to themselves and the name, and have ever, in the truest sense, been women.