According to his obituary in Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Gideon was a minister and died at the home of his son in Yokohama, Japan.[1]
Sources
↑ Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1890. p. 98. Viewable at [Books].
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ6B-2DT : 7 September 2017), Gideon Draper, New York, New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district ED 532, sheet 401D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0892; FHL microfilm 1,254,892.
Draper, Thomas Wain-Morgan. The Drapers in America. p. 123. On Google Books.
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