Denver, James W
soldier, congressman, governor, was born in 1818 in Winchester, Va. He served in the Mexican war as a captain. He was a representative from California in the thirty-fourth congress; and was appointed commissioner of Indian affairs, which office he resigned to accept the appointment of governor of the territory of Kansas. In 1866 he was a delegate to the Cleveland soldiers' convention. DE PAUW, NEWLAND TALBOT, banker, manufacturer, was born Sept. 5, 1856, in Salem, Ind. Large interests throughout Indiana come in part under his administration, including The W. C.
De Pauw company, of which he is president; The New Albany national bank, the Ohio Falls Iron works, the Merchants' national bank, of which he is also president; the New Albany Manufacturing company, and the New Albany Rail Mill company.
He is also connected with two institutions in Indianapolis, the Bank of Commerce, of which he is president, and the Union Trust company, in which he is a director.
DE PAUW, WASHINGTON CHARLES, manufacturer, philanthropist, was born Jan. 4, 1822, in Salem, Ind. He devoted himself to the manufacture of plate-glass, and The De Pauw Plate-Glass works of New Albany became one of the greatest. industries of Indiana. He gave a million and a half dollars to the De Pauw university of Greencastle, Ind.; and founded the De Pauw female college of New Albany. He died May 5, 1887, in Chicago, Ill. DEPEW, CHAUNCEY MITCHELL, lawyer, legislator, railroad president, was born. April 23, 1834, in Peekskill, N. Y.
In 1861 he was elected to the New York state legislature; was re-elected; and became secretary of state. In 1875 he became counsel of the Vanderbilt railway system; and subsequently its president. He is the author of two works entitled Orations and After-Dinner Speeches; and Later Speeches. In 1885 he became president of the New York Central and Hudson River railroad.
DE PEYSTER, ABRAHAM, jurist, was born July 8, 1658, in New York city. He was mayor of New York in 1691-95, and subsequently became chief justice of the province, and president of the king's council, in which latter capacity he acted (in 1701) as governor. He died Aug. 10, 1728, in New York city.
DE PEYSTER, FREDERIC, lawyer, philanthropist, was born Nov. 11, 1796, in New York city. He was a founder and director of the Home for Incurables, and vice-president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, founder of the Soldiers' home erected by the Grand Army of the Republic, and a trustee of the New York society library. He died Aug. 17, 1882, in Tivoli, N. Y.
DE PEYSTER, FREDERICK, soldier, was born Dec. 12, 1843. He served in the civil war, and for his conduct attained the rank of major of United States volunteers; and colonel of New York volunteers. He died Oct. 30, 1874, in Red Hook, N. Y.
DE PEYSTER, JOHN LIVINGSTON, soldier, legislator, was born June 14, 1846,. in Tivoli, N. Y. He served in the civil war and attained the rank of major and lieutenant of the United States volunteers. In 1889 he was elected to the New York state assembly.
DE PEYSTER, JOHN WATTS, soldier, author, was born March 9, 1821, in New York city. He is an historical writer of New York city, and a general of the state militia. He is the author of Life of Torstenson; The Dutch at the North Pole and the Dutch in Maine; Decisive Conflicts of the Late Civil War; Personal and Military History of General Kearney; Life of Sir John Johnston; Mary, Queen of Scots, a Study; The Character of Mary and a Justification of Bothwell; Bothwell, a drama; The Thirty Years' War; Before, At, and After Gettysburg; Life of Baron Cohorn; Caurausius, the Dutch Augustus; and The Real Napoleon Bonaparte.
DE PEYSTER, JOHNSTON W., soldier, was born Dec. 2, 1841, in New York city.
He served in the civil war and rose to the rank of colonel.
DE PUY, HENRY WALTER, lawyer, journalist, author, was born in 1820 in Pompey Hill, N. Y. He is a lawyer and journalist, and the author of Kossuth and his Generals; Louis Napoleon and his Times; and Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys of '76.
DE PUY, WILLIAM HARRISON, clergyman, author, was born in 1821 in New York. He is a methodist clergyman of western New York, and the author of Threescore Years and Beyond; Statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Home and Health; and Home Economics, a very popular book.