He organized the Bartholdi loan association which raised the money to build the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.

Off they marched to Gilder's house, rang up the butler, and persuaded him to let them tie the bird to a large chair in the front room.

Drake continued the story to the effect that Gilder early next morning was aroused by a terrific racket, rushed downstairs, and found the children hilariously dancing around the turkey, whose excited gobbling added to the din.He was first married to Hilah Tanner Lloyd (1847–1885) and then to Anne Lyde.

[4] They are interspersed with his engravings as well as photographic prints of his residence and art collection, and produced as a memorial by The Century Company.

"To a public that knew little of his charming personality and influential labors in the interest of art Mr. Drake was known chiefly as a collector.

In that field he was distinctly a creator, for he awakened the perception that objects of common use often enshrine the basic lineaments of beauty.".

Pallbearers at his funeral included Walter Leighton Clark, Charles Dana Gibson and Robert Underwood Johnson, among others.

Attached to the copy of the auction catalog are newspaper accounts of the funeral of Alexander W. Drake, of which Dr. Kunz was one of the pallbearers.