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292 intellectual and critical garb." Leaving his office at 4 P. M., he has an hour and a half before dinner in which to prepare; and he says, "I have dictated over a hundred speeches to reporters, under street lamps and while guests were assembling in the lecture hall."

He was married November 9, 1871, to Elsie, daughter of William A, P. Hegeman. She died May 7, 1896. They had one son, who is living in 1904. In 1887 Yale conferred on him the degree of LL.D.; and he was elected a Fellow, June 26, 1888. His most notable addresses were on the unveiling of the statue of Alexander Hamilton; at the Centennial of the Formation of the New York State Constitution; on the life and character of Garfield; at the unveiling of Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty; and on the thirty-second anniversary of the Y. M. C. A. at the Washington Centennial Celebration, 1889. Pope Leo XIII. sent Mr. Depew a medal bearing the likeness of the Pope and the papal coat of arms.

Mr. Depew's personality, his position, the work he has done in the world, his peculiarly genial temperament, his well-rounded equipment for his life-work—entitle him to be called a Man of Mark.

In December, 1901, he married Miss May Palmer, and since his election as United States senator in 1899 his residence has been in the old Corcoran mansion, Washington, District of Columbia.