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LEFT DEPEW 327 DE PROFTJNDIS ture of bricks, pottery, writing paper, boilers, gasoline engines, yachts, woolen goods, etc. It is the seat of St. Norbert's College. In the neighborhood are im- portant limestone quarries. There is a considerable trade in cattle, grain, and hay. The river is spanned by a bridge 1,600 feet long. Pop. (1910) 4,447; (1920) 5,165. DEPEW, CHAUNCEY MITCHELL, an American lawyer; born in Peekskill, N. Y., April 23, 1834, of Huguenot and Puritan ancestry; was graduated at Yale College in 1856, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. In 1860 he worked for the election of Lincoln; 1861-1862, was a member of the New York Assembly, and served some time as chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and as acting speaker; 1863, elected Secretary of State of New York; 1865, declined a re- nomination, and 1866 was commissioned collector of the port of New York by President Johnson, who afterward tore up the commission in a quarrel. He was appointed United States Minister to Japan, and after holding the commission a month declined, and began his career as a railroad official as attorney for the New York and Harlem Railroad. He was made attorney and director of the consoli- dated Hudson River and New York Cen- tral Railroads in 1869; general counsel of the whole Vanderbilt system in 1875; second vice-president of the reorganized New York Central Railroad in 1882, and president in 1885. His political career since 1866 embraces his unsuccessful can- didacy as lieutenant-governor on the Lib- eral Republican ticket in 1872; his elec- tion by the Legislature as a regent of the State University in 1874; his candidacy for United States Senator to succeed Thomas C. Piatt, in which he withdrew his name after 82 days of balloting in 1881 ; his declination of the United States senatorship tendered by the Republicans of the Legislature in 1884; his candidacy for the presidential nomination in the na- tional convention in 1888; and his elec- tion to the United States Senate 1899 — 1911. In 1905 he was involved in the investi- gation of the New York life insurance companies and repaid a loan obtained from the Equitable, for a concern in which he was interested. At the same time he resigned his directorship in the Equitable. Two volumes of his orations and after-dinner speeches have been pub- lished. DE PEYSTER, JOHANNES, a New York merchant; bom in Haarlem, Hol- land, in 1600; was one of the early set- tlers of New York; and became promi- nent in public affair^ during the Dutch possession; was one of the last to swear allegiance to the crown after the English succeeded to the government; served sev- eral times as alderman and deputy mayor. One son, Abraham, became chief- justice, president of the king's council, and acting governor; another, Johannes, mayor; a third, Isaac, member of the Legislature; and a fourth, Cornelius, first chamberlain of New York. He died in New York about 1685. DEPHLOGISTICATED AIR, an old name for oxygen, which chemists re- garded as common air deprived of phlo- giston. DEPILATORIES (I pull out the hair) , chemical agents employed for removing superfluous hair from the skin. DEPONENT, a term in Latin grammar applied to verbs having a passive form but an active signification. They are so called because they, as it were, lay down (Lat. depono) or dispense with the signi- fication proper to their form. Deponent is also used in law for a person who. makes a deposition. DEPOSIT, in law, something given or intrusted to another as security for the performance of a contract, as a sum of money or a deed. In commerce, a de- posit is generally either money received by banking or commercial companies with a view to employ it in their business, or documents, bonds, etc., lodged in security for loans. DEPOSIT, in geology, a layer of mat- ter formed by the settling down of mud, gravel, stoues, detritus, organic remains, etc., which had been held in suspension in water. DEPOSITION, the evidence or state- ment of a witness on oath or afllirmation, signed by the justice or other duly au- thorized official before whom it is given; an affidavit. DEPOT (da'po or dep'o), a French word in general use as a term for a place where goods are received and stored ; hence, in military matters, a magazine where arms, ammunition, etc., are kept. The term is now usually applied to those companies of a regiment which remain at home when the rest are away on foreign service. In the United States it is the common term for a railway station. DEPRIVATION, the removing of a clergyman from his benefice on account of heresy, misconduct, etc. It entails, of course, loss of all emoluments, but not the loss of clerical character. D-R PROFUNDIS. in the liturgy of the Roman Catholie Church, one of the