New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . the combination giving us the delegate to the Republican State Convention. Iiiis was aflattering tribute to so young a man and rendered him forsome time undecided as to whether he should ])ractise lawin earnest or go into ])olitics. He took the stumj) for Lin-coln in i860 and rendered material service to his party. Hiseloquence, his wit and humor, the pathos he interjected intohis speeches when necessary, were a revelation to the peo-ple and took them by storm. In 1861 he wrested the ThirdWestchester County District from the
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . the combination giving us the delegate to the Republican State Convention. Iiiis was aflattering tribute to so young a man and rendered him forsome time undecided as to whether he should ])ractise lawin earnest or go into ])olitics. He took the stumj) for Lin-coln in i860 and rendered material service to his party. Hiseloquence, his wit and humor, the pathos he interjected intohis speeches when necessary, were a revelation to the peo-ple and took them by storm. In 1861 he wrested the ThirdWestchester County District from the Democrats, and wassent to the Legislature, where he found fresh laurels await-ing him. He was re-elected in 1862 and made Chairman ofthe Ways and Means Committee. He was speaker pro part of the session, and at its close the business menof New York gave him a banquet. In 1862 Horatio Sey-mour was elected Governor of the State and the Republi-cans were alarmed. They looked around next year for anavailable man to recover the ground lost, selected Chauncey. CHAUNCEY highest type of an American citizen. The Depews, withother Huguenots, settled in and around New Rochelle in1685, nammg it after that French city their fathers had soheroically defended against the forces led by Cardinal Riche-lieu and Louis XIII. a generation before. The farm pur-chased by the Depews two hundred years ago has descendedin direct succession to Chauncey with the old homestead,of which he is far prouder than of his splendid brownstonehouse in New York City. He graduated from Yale withhonors in 1856. He is President of her Alumni Association,is a member of her Skull and Crossbones club, and in1857 received from her the high honor of The yearof his graduation was marked by the formation of the Re-publican party, and young Depew, though educated aDemocrat, cast his first vote for John C. Fremont. He wasadmitted to the bar in 1858 and was in the same year elected M. DEPEW, Depew, nominated him
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