• Son of Daniel N. and Patience Perkins Taft Drake.  He was re-baptized at Salt Lake on 10 February 1848.  His birth and death dates are confirmed by is death certificate.

Daniel Spencer/Ira Eldredge Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 21
• Head of Household

Sources

• Biographical Record of Salt Lake City and Vicinity (Chicago: National Historical Record Company, 1902), 115.
• Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913), 847.
• Horace Drake, Biographical sketches, 1891-2013.
• "Horace Drake, Pioneer of 1847, Died at Home in Centerville Last Sunday," Davis County Clipper , 11 Jan. 1918, 1.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 21 June 1847, 16.
• "Pioneer of 1847 Is Dead At Centerville," Salt Lake Herald, 8 Jan. 1918, 5.
• "Pioneers of '47 Meet for Their Annual Celebration," Salt Lake Telegram, 24 July 1914, 31.
• Salt Lake City Property Index.
• Utah Cemetery Inventory
• Utah Death Certificates.