Death
Drexel died of a heart attack on June 30, 1893 in Karlsbad (in the German-speaking part of Bohemia, Austrian Empire) today Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic at the age of 66, and was buried in The Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia.
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